Whilst Simeon and Clive spent what can only described as a romantic afternoon in the Hilton Hotel, drinking tea and laughing gaily at each others crude jokes, the rest of us did something rather more productive with our time.
A couple of weeks previously we were informed that the young people of the Africa Inland Church had organised a day out at 'Fourteen (water)Falls,' which were, in spite of Kenya's impending water crisis, impressively still falling. An invitation quickly followed and on Saturday 22nd we found ourselves up and ready at 8am to load onto the buses in time to begin our hike at 9.
At 9.15 I looked out the left hand side of our bus to see the other one being pushed by about 7 different youths who, eventually, persuaded the engine to start. An hour and a half later we arrived and began to walk, chewing and spitting sugar cane as we went. The hike turned out to be a 30 minute saunter but there weren't many complaints. It soon became apparent that the real challenges lay in crossing the stream/river at the top of the waterfalls. After successfully managing that, we proceeded in jumping off one of them. With the exception of Dominic, who somehow jumped into some rocks and cut his ankle, we all plunged into the water (some twice) without injury.
We eventually made it to a nearby field where games (of sorts) were organised. I'm on a tight schedule so I'll just bullet point the highlights:
Matthew dancing with a girl in truth or dare
All of us eating chapatis and sandwiches
Matthew pulling said girl (later on that day)
Dominic pulling other local girl
Julian pulling other local girl
Kevin pulling other local girl
Amahleke getting hit square on the back of the head with a pile of cow dung.
Jamaal nearly knocking out local guy with (very hard) football
And that's about it until we got back. I believe the rest of the day is being included in a separate blogpost. So enjoy.
Paul
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