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hey guys, well we are back in nairobi again! last time i wrote, it was about the masters,2 of them have gone onto a new truck now-YIPPEE. that day i wrote, alot happened afterwards, to one of the girls, she got so drunk she ended up sleeping with our driver-he's 20 years older than her, and has 2 front false teeth. anyway mine and jo's tent was next to hers so we got to hear everything! later that day she discovered a love bite, she left her expensive camera out that night, so thats long gone now, and the topper, she discovered the bottom of her sleeping bag was soaking, and a big puddle in the corner of her tent-robin (driver) had pee'ed because he couldnt get out the tent in time! everyone found out and teased both of them, poor beth couldnt ever speak to robin again, she wouldnt be left with him, and had to walk around for a few days wearing a hoodie, so no one would see the bite, but everyone found out anyway.
we've been to uganda now, saw the gorillas-they were fantastic, our group ended up being a few meters away, i had to balance myself on the other end of the log that the gorillas were on, and one decided to start shaking it, i nearly fell off, which wouldnt of been good, as we were on the side of a mountain, and i would've ended up at the bottom if i fell, than he got really playfull, and charged at us, so i nearly came off the log again, this time by jo, who was trying to get away from the gorilla, we never saw the silverback, who is supposed to be double the size of the other gorillas, but we saw 2 male, 2 female and a baby, and they were huge. the trek wasnt bad, it took 1 1/2 hours before we spotted them, but our group had to climb down a steep hill, which was hard, but getting back, we had to have the porters, pulling us up some of the time.
we had to do a bush camp our first night, it was bucketing down, and because it was a bush camp, once we got into our tents for bed, we were told, if you absolutley have to go loo in the middle of the night, it has to be right by the tent, we weren't allowed to walk 30secs to the loo, it was too dangerous. we've been on a few game drives and seen cheetah, lions, rhino, elephants, vultures, hippos and ofcourse loads of zebras,giraffes,antelope,impala,baboons,monkeys,birds,buffalo,wilderbeast.
we also went on a walking safari, that was really cool, no dangerous animals around, except for hippo footprints, but they stay in the water during the day, so no chance of us being chomped.
we were told a story, a lady from kumuka, got drunk one night, and at one of the campsites, that kumuka used to stop at, but dont now because of this, anyway there was a little electric fence that seperated the camp form the hippos, and she decided to climb over the electric fence to take a photo of the them, and she got between a mother hippo, her baby and the water, so the hippo chomped her in half, and she layed there bleeding to death, there was no time to save her, and i think she was a guide not a passanger. thats bloody bad.
we went to a masai village, and saw the're huts and dancing, that was cool, we also went hotair ballooning, over the masai mara, sometimes the balloon was so low, that we just skimmed the bushes,you could just jump out of the basket. unfortunaetly we didnt see much-no lions,or leopard, everyone is just hanging out to see leopards, but they hide themselves.
we're going to spend christmas in zanzibar, and do our own little secret santa, theres only 8 of again going to vic falls, we lost 3 people a few days ago and gained 3-another english hayley.
i have been given the nickname nana, by one of the guys, because as soon as we get on the bumpy roads, i fall asleep, the roads are terrible, its like being on a rollercoaster, it's more like we're just going over rocks, and end up being thrown off the seats into the air and back down again, but thats what makes me fall asleep, all the rocking.
so far i've been lucky and only had to cook once! we're in 2's cooking partners and flapping partners, its really funny, afer washing all the dishes and pots, you have to stand there waving(flapping) them wildly to get them dry-no tea towels.
anyway i better go, the computers out here arent reliable, so i'll go before it logs me off and i loose everying.
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