Hello family friends and fellow blog readers!
This is Monica blogging from a tiny internet cafe in Kampala. We've been in Uganda for about 2 weeks now and it has been the craziest and most eventful weeks of my life. I'm just sitting here now in awe of what I have just done. We started off our week in a rhino sanctuary where rhinos would hang out right outside our windows while we were sleeping. And instead of waking up to an alarm, I'd wake up to the monkeys outside. Then this week we went to Jinja and stayed at a beautiful place overlooking the Nile river and from there we went to the river to go rafting. This was my first time rafting and me along with another girl in my group were terrified. Despite being terrified we forced ourselves to try and it was very worth it! I may have not followed the directions our raft guide was giving us at first because I was holding on for dear life but eventually I got the hang of it. The last rapid we went over (out of about ten) was massive and flipped the entire raft. It was a crazy experience and we got some gnarly pictures! Overall I have been loving every second here whether the locals are yelling muzungus (foreigner in swahili) at us or we're swimming in the Nile it's been great. Anyways, more updates to come soon!
p.s. don't worry, dad I'm safe.