Uganda!

Jambo my mzungu rafikis!

I LOVE UGANDA. Seriously. If I could spend the rest of my time there, I would. We took the overnight bus from Nairobi. The only problem with the overnight bus is, if the extraordinarily bumpy road doesn't wake you up, then the police checkpoints where they flash lights and wave guns in your face will. Side note: the police here carry huge ass guns.

Uganda is gorgeous. Like rolling green hills, and the Nile is amazing. I also felt really comfortable in Jinja, our town. We stayed at this place in Uganda called Adrift. It's a little resort thing on the Nile. There is a bar, and little cabins to sleep, and its only $5-10 USD a night. There were also hot showers, and real toilets!!!! It's full of travellers from all over,and it was nice to meet people. We arrived there Saturday morning, and we took a couple of boda bodas to the camp from the bus stop. Boda bodas are these little motor cycles that drive you places for like 75 cents, like a way cheap taxi. I was so overtired, I just found them hilarious. There was like 6 of us, so it was like this fleet of boda bodas cruising through Jinja. We just hung around saturday, and napped, and then had some drinks at the bar. On Sunday, we went white water rafting down the Nile. IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!! One of the best things I've ever done for sure. Some of the rapids were grade 5, anything over 5 can't be done cause you'll drown. We almost went over a water fall, but the water level was too high and we couldn't paddle to it fast enough. We flipped once which was hilarious. The water like sucks you away and you just float down to where is calmer. On the stretches of flat water, we just laid on the raft and tanned. Even with reapplying SPF 50 like 6 times, I still got a little burn. I also have mosquito bites all over my face due to lack of nettage at the camp haha. It looks like I have chicken pox. Apparently, as long as you can afford the malaria meds, its no big thing. Still, I'm hoping for no malaria.

That night, we went bungee jumping. Adrift let's you go for free if you go naked if you're a girl. It's 70 $US per jump. Need I say more? Linn, Becca, and I went together so it wasn't as bad. We did it at dusk because a) its darker and less visible and b) there is a muslim community across the river so we had to wait until they were in for the night. There is a video, and its far enough away that you can't see details, but I'm still debating putting it on facebook. It was soo much fun!! Apparently news travels fast, and like the whole village came to watch.

Monday night was a lot of fun too. Like the whole bar was jamming to hakuna matata and circle of life. I just got back to Nairobi today, and I am going on a safari this weekend!!! I'll get back to Mombasa on Tuesday. Apparently there are a lot more volunteers there now, so it should be a bit more exciting around there.

I really want to go back to Uganda, but I don't know if I'll have time this summer. BOOO!! Anyway, this internet cafe is expensive as shit (4 shillings/min and 1000 is 15$ lol you do the math) so I should wrap it up.

I've only heard good things about the safari so I'm prettty excited. The weekend after that, some volunteers are coming to visit us in Mombasa. Then, Zanzibar for a weekend!