so much has happened, we are not gonna lie:

on monday we witnessed court at the UN Special International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. This rounded out my studies of justice practices for the genocide and let me say how different it was from things in Rwanda. How slow and extravagant the approach the UN has taken. But, the visit was very illuminating

and then, just as we thought we were getting the hang of tourist-central, the town of Arusha, Ari went and got to absorbed in some work on the internet and her poor little bag behind here was snatched up by a bravado character and disappeared without a trace. Bummer! While Ariana had been frustrated that she forgot her passport back at the hostel that morning when she should have had it to visit court, we were both very glad that she actually did not have it that morning and therefore the hassle of the missing bag was much less than it could have been. After a brief tutorial on how to call the US from our new Tanzanian cellphone all missing credit cards were canceled and a sincere hope that the little cash that was lost was going to a worthy cause. As Gandhi says, when someone robs your home, you should open all the doors and windows because the problem is not the robber but they system that has created the discrepancy that one person would need to rob another. I thought of this as I walked down the street to our hotel today. I think Gandhi would criticize me for responding that the world is too complex for that to be the solution in a world of such extreme inequalities, but this is something I am wrestling with too. (Ari)

More to come from Zanzibar as soon as we have a reliable internet connection!