Our first stop was in Jinja where you can go rafting and Bungee Jumping. It took us about 9 hours to get there from Kitale but it was well worth it. First we tried to go bungee jumping but the bungee master had already gone home for the day. So we went to Nile Rivers Campsite where we booked our rafting trip and stayed for the night.
This is a view from Nile River's Campsite. We could walk down by the river where they had some docks you could walk out on.
As we were eating dinner we got to watch the sunset
The next morning we got ready for a crazy trip down the Nile. It looks really calm in the background but I promise you that the rapids were not like that. We went down 1 class 5 rapids two class 4 and about 3 class 3 rapids. The class 5 rapid was so fun! it was at the end of a class 6 which looked insane, I was pretty glad that it wasn't the one we were going down.
This is a picture of me rafting.. I'm not sure if it actually attached because to me to just looks llike a blank box. Well if the picture is actually there then it is of me and the guide in the "Bad Place" it is the class 5 rapid and was so much fun! somehow I didn't get knocked out of the raft when everyone else did. the guide and I ended up staying in the raft for about 45 more seconds until we flipped. It was so scary and fun! the guide said that I had the best expression of fear on my face. Randomly throughout the rest of the trip he would start laughing and say that he got a flashback of my horrified face.
This is me infront of Lake Buyonyi which was about a 10 hr bus ride from Kampala where we had stayed with one of Lindseys friend the night before. We tried to get all the way to Bwindi but of course the bus too way longer than expected. We got to Kibale where we planned to get another bus to Bwindi but they weren't running anymore for the day. We looked in the guide book and it said Lake Buyonyi was like the terraced hills in Nepal so we figured we might as well stay in Nepal for the night! I was so glad we did because it was absolutely gorgeous. We stayed in a safari tent which overlooked the lake.
Here is the sunset over Lake Buyonyi. I swear the sunset got better and better everywhere we went.
So the next day we got a ride to Bwindi. It was the most ridiculous transportation ever! We traveled 4 hours in the back of a pickup truck packed with people and potatoes and bananas and wood. At one point there were 16 people in the back with all of this stuff. The drivers get very greedy and put way to many people in the cars or buses. After the truck dropped us off in a different place than they told us we had to get a moto to go the final 32 km. Turns out that after all of the time outside traveling my face turns the color of all of the dirt. Everything is soo dusty here because it is the dry season. I looked like an Umpa Lumpa once we finally got to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. My backpack was black too but it is pretty much brown in the picture.
This is the view at our hotel. Bwindi is the most dense forest I have ever seen. This is a great park to come and do a gorilla trek because there are so many gorillas in the forest. We didn't do one because we didn't have the extra $500 it cost to do it so we settled for two nature hikes through the forest. The first hike was to see some waterfalls. This hike was supposed to be a favorite among the visitors, but the waterfalls were pretty small so we weren't very impressed. We hoped the hike in the afternoon would be better. Before the hike we talked to a ranger and he said that we should have done the afternoon hike in the morning because you can see a lot further into the distance. We were not happy because we had specifically asked our guide which one we should do in the morning and he said the waterfall one. Oh well, I think he was a new guide... Anyways we got the second hike for free because they felt bad.
The second hike was so much better than the first. It took us up into the tops of the mountains where we could have seen volcanoes in Congo and the Rwenzori mountain range. But because it was pretty foggy we couldn't see any of it. It was still beautiful and we got to step into Congo! At first our guide told us that Congo was 5km away and once we got to the top of the mountain he said we were standing in Congo!
The great waterfall
Lindsey and I standing in Congo
On every hike we were accompanied by a guard incase there where any animals that tried to attack us. Don't worry he didn't have to us the gun.
On the way back through Uganda we stopped in Jinga to try and go bungee jumping again! Once we got there Lindsey decided she didn't want to go because she had gone once before so I had to jump by myself! I was so scared once I actually got up there. Before the bungee master came I had to wait an hour for him to get there so the entire time i was thinking about what I was about to do. That was probably the most nerve racking part. At the top of the stand they explain to you how many tons the rope could hold and I figured I don't way a ton so it had to be fine. As you are about to walk to the edge he says don't look down. I tried so hard not to look down so I was just looking where Lindsey was standing taking pictures. I thought I was going to fall off of the edge just because I was shaking so much.
all of a sudden he tells you to jump on three and starts counting. I knew i had to jump right away or else there was a good chance I wasn't going to go. It was SO much fun I wanted to go again once I got into the raft at the bottom. If you are ever in Jinga, Uganda you HAVE to do this and rafting!
This is Linet who is the leader of different women's groups. She was the first one to try and make a crepe because all of the other ladies were to nervous to try.
The other ladies were so good at making them and they all wanted to have their picture taken while making them. At first I just took a picture of the first couple of ladies but then they all asked to have their picture taken. 
This is the games area where the kids from Pathfinders play. They have a soccer field and a basketball court here. The cows and sheep also hangout in this area... Not the cleanest for kids to be playing in.
Next to the school there is a water filter factory. The filters are made out of a combination of sawdust and clay. I made two filters in the time it took one of the workers to make 5. I guess filter making is not in my future. It was fun to make though. Each filter gets a serial number and the date it was made. Each lasts for about 4 years and they save a lot of people from getting sick from the water.
This is Manu and he is Joshua's youngest kid. He is two years old and just walks around hitting the dogs and playing with a soccer ball all day. He is so cute even when he is having a fit and throws himself on the ground. 
These are some kids who were playing after school and of course they wanted some pictures. They LOVE getting their pictures taken.
The other day Joshua had me go tour a girls high school so I could get some ideas of what they were like. The buildings on the right are some of the class rooms and the building in the back is the kitchen. To the left is a big soccer field. This school has won a couple of trophies in soccer which is very exciting for them. The principle has them all in her office. I got a lot of ideas for the design of JOshua's high school from here because I had no idea what I was going to do before.
These are the other volunteer who are here too. On the left is Lindsey and the right is Dan. Lindsey has worked with Village Volunteers a lot and also with Joshua. She has been showing me the ropes around here. Dan had been here for about a month and he was teaching juggling and knot tying to the kids. This morning he left to go to Masi mara for a week before he heads back to the states.
On Sunday this Kenyan Dennis wanted to take Dan and I on a walk to see some cool rocks. He said it wasn't far, but it was pretty far for me. I was boiling because it was so hot and it took us about an hour and a half to get to the rocks. This is what the roads are like around here. I don't understand how the cars can drive on them, but they do.
Here is Dennis and I on top of one of the rocks. The view was better from my right, but the person who took the picture didn't capture it.
Here are Dan and Dennis sitting on the "awesome" rocks
More kids going crazy for getting their pictures taken.
While we were walking back from the rocks a bunch of people wanted their picture taken. They all just ask to have it taken as soon as they see a mazungu "white person". Everywhere I go they scream mazungu like I didn't know i was white. haha
This is just some of what I see everyday
A nice sunset two nights ago. The clouds were gorgeous. My picture doesn't even do it justice.
Here is a little friend that I found before I was going to bed. I tried to kill it but it was way to fast. Last night it fell into one of my bags when I tried to kill it on the ceiling... 
Yesterday Lindsey and I made basketball nets out of old maize bags so the kids could play basketball. Yesterday be had them playing with a soccer ball, but we are in Kitale today trying to find some basketballs so they can really play.
I just thought you should see how close the animals are to the basketball court.