I rafted the Nile!

Last weekend we traveled two hours to Jinga to go white water rafting on the Nile River!  It was amazing!!  We left our place at 630 in the morning.  They provided transportation from Kampala to Jinga (2 hour bus ride).  So we had to be in downtown Kampala at 715, unfortunately we are still new to public transportation, so we did not arrive until 745! Luckily they waited for us!! They do not take a deposit and we did not have to prepay, so I think they waited because otherwise they would have be out 6 peoples worth of money! Praise God for no deposit! Haha.

The bus was nice, and i sat next to a girl from Finland who was really cool.  When we got there they rushed us onto the next bus (because we were so late).  They gave us a bowl of fruit and a rolex for breakfast! (more then what i typically eat for breakfast!)  It was about a 20 minute bus ride to the drop in site.  Once we got there they went over the rules, then we walked around the guides saying we wanted to go crazy!  2 guides told us to get out of their boats, becuase they did not want the crazy group, and pointed us to Geofrey.  We got on the water and we practiced flipping!! (that was not a good sign).  First rapid we concurred, no problem.  It was only a Class 3.  We then did a Class 4 and flipped,it was crazy! but so fun!!  The next rapid was a class 6, so we got out the boat and walked around it to the Class 5.  The class 5 was called the bad place, and we lasted about 8 seconds before we flipped. That one was pretty ferocious, we all ended at different places on the river (usually when you flip you can remain holding onto the raft, but on this one you were supposed to let go).  Then the rest of the rapids, there were 4 (the same one twice) we flipped 3 times!!  No one else flipped that much!  They weren't kidding when they said we had the craziest guide!!!

Then we arrived at a picnic area where we could change into dry clothes and then they had a BBQ. it was delicious!! 

It was definetly the most intense rafting i have ever done, but it was sweet!!

That night we stayed at the house of the EMI construction manager (he is located out of Jinga).  He was actually in the states, but a Long term volunteer was staying at his house and we stayed with the volunteer.  He had a bunch of friends over for a campfire, unfortunately i was sooo exhausted i did not last very long, haha. 

The next morning we went to church with him.  I was in a guys backyard.  He was a preacher from Virginia, so i felt right at home!!  He talked about the suffering of Christ, how he was beaten and bruised and mocked and how he took it all for us.  It was incredible, my soul started hurting, i just fell to my knees during worship because i could not handle it.  After that we went out to lunch and then took the Rafting Company's bus back to Kampala.  We bought groceries, and i realllly did not want to cook this week, so i bought macaroni and cheese ( an knock off Kraft version).  And let me say it was delicious!! Ironically it was more expensive then if i bought ingredients and made spaghetti sauce and spaghetti.

This weekend we just hung out, really our first weekend off since we got here.  It was nice to have a restful weekend.  We had a game night at the Greene's house on Saturday and on Sunday we went to a pool.