vote natebell usp!

10 days in kapchorwa!

-most beautiful place i have ever been or seen with my own eyeball lookers!

-caught tons of chameleons, maybe less

-climbed many trees

-hiked mountains almost everyday to waterfalls and caves

-tore an enormous hole in my pants while playing soccer with school kids. from the crotch to the ankle. embarrassing? no. losing to school kids in soccer. embarrassing? a little. there was more of them though.

-carried banana tree stems on my head.

-mistaken multiple times for being asian, or specifically chinese.

-shared a room with a hen that was incubating. named her jacqueline.

-had miserable diarrhea for 4 days.

-improved my slingshot skills to expert.

-visited compassion international with my host brother sam (12), and watched him write a letter to his sponsors.

-was nearly trampled by hundreds of kids who wanted to touch the "muzungu" in the two schools i visited.

-ate a handful of white ants live. and more. heads and wings and all.

-took a 6 hour hike in the mountains.

-went on a coffee tour. made coffee from step one. world's best cup of coffee - congratulations everyone! (ELF)

-found a banana slug. appropriately named by color and size.

-saw crocodiles as we drove over the nile. boom.

-many great discussions about dowery/bride price, circumcision, and other customs and traditions of the people of kapchorwa.

-I <3 AFRICA.