Naked Day!

Boy, do I have a story to tell you all!  I know I posted last night but this story is too good, disturbing and down right wrong that I just had to share. So as a precaution...

WARNING:  YOU MAY BE SCARRED FOR LIFE.

So, after coming home from school today a group of 6 of us decided to walk into town to run a few errands.  Go to the money exchange, pick up somethings at the grocery store and book store.  No big deal.  It was a beautiful day today and we didn't even have street vendors trying to hassle us. It was an enjoyable time...

However, we were headed to the money exchange, when a man came up to us and we were anticipating the words "Rafiki, Rafiki!  My paintings.  I give you good price" to come out of his mouth. Instead, he pointed in the direction that we were headed and said "Its naked day", and continued walking away from us.  We were so confused by this, looked at each other and wondered 'oh boy, what are we going to be walking into this time.'  We would later know that this statement was a joke.  We took two steps and behold....

there was a women buck naked, walking in the middle of the city street! Buck naked.  (I am boged out just writing this!!)  With her bleach blond hair and her thick Tanzanian body she was strutting her stuff right down main street.  We tried not to look and just keep our eyes looking ahead, but it was so bizarre.  But wait, it gets better...she starts walking toward us!  And of course, being Mozungus and the only white person in town, she now had competition with the amount of fame that she will receive.  We didn't want anything to do with this situation so, we pick up the pace and booked it to the money exchange.  

As we pass the women, we walk about 10 feet and notice a tank top laying in the street.  We walk another 10 feet and we notice that there are a pair of pants laying in the street.  We walk another 10 feet and there were a pair of shoes laying in the middle of the street which only means that this woman had planned to strip and strut!

We reached the money exchange place laughing and not believing what we were seeing!!  Was this a normal activity in Tanzania??  We had no clue but were left scarred with a permanent impression of a Tanzanian women.  SICK haha  

We made our exchange and started walking back up the street to head to the grocery store.  At the top of the street, there is a round-a-bout with a clock tower in the center of the courtyard.  As we were getting closer to the round about, there were tons of people lining the street who had stopped to watch the happening.  Luckily, the woman had put her clothes on by now.  We couldn't tell if the police were there, but what we did notice were all of the laughs that came from the mouths of the spectators.  That confirmed that this sort of thing was not typical.  Thank Goodness!

So we quickly bolted into the store and continued with our to-do list.  

I can now add Naked Day to one of my lasting impressions of Arusha Tanzania.  Oh Joy :)