Spirit Animals

Yes, I’m a cliché.

No, I don’t hate it.

I went on safari.

Last Saturday, all 14 of us (plus Martin, our homestay coordinator… we love him) traveled to Murchison Falls National Park, a three-hour trip southwest of Gulutown.  We left before dawn (5:30 am to be exact) and arrived in the park just as it was getting light.

I lucked out getting in the van I did, as ours had a sunroof that we spent the majority of the time standing out of.  No joke, all I needed was The Lion King soundtrack playing and I was the title character in a coming-of-age made-for-TV movie.

ELEPHANTS.

GIRAFFES.

HIPPOS.

COBBS.

AWESOME.

We also took a boat ride about 16 km down the River Nile.

beware crocodiles.

We were cliché yet again, and took the obligatory “Nile on the Nile.”

I said that if I left Africa without seeing an elephant and a giraffe, the whole trip would have been a fail…

AFRICA = SUCCESS.

Now I guess I need new goals.  Probably they should concern learning.