Meghan fails at meeting other countries.

It's now the end of July, and besides Kenya, I have successfully visited Jinja and Kampala. The boys who work at Adrift just kept telling me that I wasn't going to leave, so I didn't. And just as I was beginning to make plans to go to Kigali, Butare, and Bujumbura, I was attacked by an unidentifiable stomach bug that put me out for almost a week, and my bank card was attacked by the Barclays ATM. I withdrew some money from my account to pay for the medicine I needed to feel better when the machine scratched the CHIP identification, making it impossible for me to use my debit card thereafter.

So I have been stuck in Jinja, in both a good and a bad way. The only other development has been that people believe me now when I say I'm coming back to Adrift to get a job, and I've realized that I have to leave at some point, so I've started taking a few pictures. Also, because I've been so bored and Adrift has been so busy, I've started helping in the kitchen. Next week, a large group is staying at the campsite for a full week and we'll be running a program of traditional food, so I'll learn how to make things like chapatis, posho, matoke, beans, etc.

My rough plan for the rest of my time here is this: Next week, I will be in the kitchen all week, rafting perhaps if there is a small trip, learning to kayak and then leaving on Wednesday night to go back to Nairobi. In Nairobi, I will try to find volunteers from my organization that want to go rafting for my last weekend. Then, as soon as possible, I'll return to Jinja to spend my last week working in the kitchen, kayaking, rafting, laying by the pool, learning Luganda, cooking traditional food, eating my last meals of matoke and beans, rolex chapatis, and sumbusa, learning to drive a boda boda, and perhaps even bungee jumping (tandem, I won't be able to walk to the edge of the platform on my own). I'll hop the bus back to Nairobi on Monday night, and catch the plane on Tuesday night. I'll get to Zurich in the morning, and chill in the airport until I catch the last plane to Toronto. You're allowed to start deciding who will be in my recieving party now.