Transportation by Tenesae

There are lots of big trucks and taxi’s here that drive very fast.

One of the things that we use to get around here are called a Bajaj, it is a very small vehicle, almost like a motor bike with a bus seat behind the driver. It was a very scary ride for me, I thought that the door was going to fall off, but Zariah and Kai thought the ride was so much fun, they started giggling away, mostly Zariah. Micah likes to call them “bob-crashes”. Kai did hit his head a couple times going over bumps in the road. The bajaj’s zip this way and that way.

The gari is a horse buggy, some people hitch rides with men who own the Gari. Sometimes the gari is used to carry loads of stone, brick, leaves, or wood. The thing I don’t like about the gari is how they whip the poor horses with leather and sticks. Sometimes they bleed or once we saw a horse on the side of the road dead.

Most of the time people just walk around. When we went for a walk dad said that we were just going to walk to this pink building, but we ended up walking to a different place a lot farther. The babies here are lucky because they get carried on the older sister’s or mom’s back.

Some people have donkey’s to carry their jugs of water, but we saw lots of girls carrying water too. I love learning something new everyday we take a walk.