So Iringa was cool. I am starting to really study swahili, with books and everything. I'm getting lots of compliments from people who say I can't believe you've only been here 3 weeks, and you know the language this well. They are very encouraging, but I don't think I'm progressing quite that well. After Iringa Myself and 3 others went to Tanga. We rented bikes and cruised the city. We found the ocean and went for a swim. We were harrassed quite a bit in Tanga at first, but then we stayed at the Ferns Inn and this really cool guy who runs the place was very friendly to us, and extremely helpful. If anyone goes to Tanga, I recommend Ferns Inn. We then stayed 2 nights in the Amani Nature Reserve. Will have some pictures up here eventually hopefully. Yesterday we hopped on the back of a truck on our way in to Muheza. A 2 hour bumpy ride where we stood in the back and held on to these bars above as we went crashing over these holes, and bumps along this horrible road. It was a fun experience, but we got charged 2000T each to ride which kind of sucked. We had a crappy bus ride to DAR. Hot and crowded and many many stops. We got here though, and it's been fun since we got here. Met a guy last night who is a DJ at a radio station called Magic FM 92.9 in Dar es Salaam. I told him I wanted to do some feild researcxh in Tanzania, and I might do something regarding music in the area, and now he wants me to call in and be interviewed about music in contemporary Africa- or maybe I'll interview him? Not sure we'll see? It will air here and on line Saturday at 7-9pm local Tanzania time, so tune in if you want to hear me talk about Bongo Flava.