My first real Chapa experience

All of the public transportation is by Chapa. A chapa generally is a 15 passenger van that they stuff an average of 20 peole in (4 per 3 person seat at least). This past Saturday I went to Matola to Shoprite (the Moz Wal-Mart) and to get home we found that there is no direct chapa all the way back to Namaacha where we live, so I experienced a chapa bus to Boane. It was the most unbelievable thing I have experienced and I´m glad some of my fellow PCTs were there to witness it. This is a smaller bus with 2 seats then an isle then 1 seat. We were all shoved into the aisle. Of the people we could see we counted at least 45 on a bus made for maybe 35. I couldn´t move. They always say to never have anything in your pockets, and I´m glad I didn´t because even if someone had reached in mine I couldn´t have moved to stop them. It was unbeleivable. I was pressed full frontal on this stranger (luckily my bag was between us) and sticking my butt in this old lady´s face. At one point I was on tip-toe because someone shoved their feet under mine. And they just kept pushing more people on. Then the couple next to me were drinking beers and threw them out the window when they were done. Just another one of those moments that make you realize "I`m living in Mozambique".