So, we of course tried both giving money to the taxi driver and leaving it at the hostel. We decided to leave it at the hostel because the money from the cabbie was never delivered. We felt very discouraged but were determined it would work to leave it at the hostel. Our friend went to pick up the money but they staff said it was never delivered. After we assured him in an email that we did indeed drop it off, he went back and after a lot of arguing, the staff eventually handed over the money.
We also found out later the cab driver did in fact drop off the money, just later than he said he would.
All in all, we should have remembered to pay him back in the first place, but we thought it was interesting that both methods did work, just not in the way we hoped.
Also, we are hoping to do a month or so of volunteer work in southern Africa in April/May and would love any ideas/contacts/resources that you might have. (Katy, we are eagerly awaiting more info from you!) Our main interest is to stay in one community for a longer period of time and get to know people and their culture.
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i'm on it. collecting info to send to you real soon! love you both
I think you should have given the money to a person that looked like zee needed it and instructed that person to pay it forward to three more people. That way the most people will be positively impacted instead of just two parties. Then, Haley Joel Osment can die at the end.
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