HARDCORE!!!!

just a very quick post to show you that i am HARDCORE!!!
we got the rafting pictures yesterday, if you look closly we will see me at the front of the boat on the left hand side with the red helment on.
this was the moment when the intructor took the waterfall rapid very wrong in that we went down it backwards, i think you can see the fear and excitment on my face just before we fall out of the raft and flip over, it was so cool!!! loved it too much i think!!

rallies and wind!

Currently as I type, Besiyge the main opposition to the present government in the up coming elections is holding a very large rally in town, I got caught up in him arriving yesterday on my way out of town, they were welcoming him in. Boy did he get a welcome! It is amazing how many people gather so quickly here and get so excited. I am sure the labour conference crowd is not this loud and excitable. All interseting stuff, am looking forward to see how the elections turn out, they are at the end of feb so we have more build up and rallies until then!




In the mean time at the house I have a serious problem with our cat gizmo as he has the worst wind ever, he is silent but yet extremely deadly. It is so bad you have to move into another room when he drops one!!! Suggestions welcome on how to stop the cats bad wind! at least for once its not me!!!

new year and zanaibar

After Christmas myself and Claire had quite a manic week looking after goats on my friends farm while there were away, we didn't do a great job as one died but Claire did a great post mortem, smelt bad though!!
we then headed down to jinja to go white water rafting on new years eve day. It was sooooo cool, I loved it so much and want to do it all the time now. We were doing grade 5 rapids which are the most you are allowed to do in a raft. They were big, I don't have any photos as the camera would have got slightly wet but will have a DVD coming shortly so when I come back to England I can bore you all with how cool rafting is and how hard core I am!!!!
myself and Claire then headed to Tanzania, well Zanzibar to be exact, for those that don't know it is a very beautiful island off the coast of Dar es Salem, we had a mammoth 36 hour journey just to get to Dar and then next day went across the island on the boat, a very bumpy ride.
the reason we went was because Claire knew someone there who ran a posh hotel where are could stay for free, so off we went.
we had a great time, the lady we stayed with was quite mad, possible unstable, lots of comedy moments!
have put some photos up to make you very envious!!
I came back to Uganda on Sunday and Claire headed back to Kenya before she goes back to cold England!! It was so great to have Claire here for Christmas and New Year, so I am now back to work and trying to get through all the chocolate I have been sent for Christmas, thankyou everyone!!!