Goodbyes

The last full day in camp I woke up extra early to go see the sunrise. Yohanna lead and two ascaris came with us: all three carried spears in case any hyenas were still lurking around. Yohanna's spear was pretty much as big as him. It looked really goofy but I bet he could use the spear well if he needed to. The morning star as well as another star and a planet were burning brightly in the sky as we walked. The walk itself was a little perilous in the dark but we got to the top of moyo hill without incident. We almost walked into a big spider web and there were these bugs making a very loud and unnerving buzzing sound. Then the sun started to come up. It was a very bright pinkish red. You couldn't look at it for very long because it rose and brightened to so quickly.

After the hike was breakfast and the program debrief. The debrief was very long, sad, and mostly irrelevant to me because I wasn't really leaving. Lots of people were crying and I was sad they were leaving but mostly I just wanted desperately to go get back in bed.

Once the debrief was done I got in bed, pulled my sleeping bag up under my chin and just lay there cozy and happy. After an hour or so I drifted off. I slept through lunch and practically until dinner. I felt so much better when I woke up!

Dinner that night was amazing. They cooked everything we had asked for and more. There were roasted chickens (including the head and the feet), fried fish, beef kabobs among other things. No one could figure out how to cut up the chickens so I cut for everyone (yay meat science class!). The cutting wasn't perfect (it's a lot harder to butcher a chicken after its cooked than before) but everyone seemed happy enough with what I was doing. There wasn't much left when I finally went through the food line- most people had taken the good stuff- but there was enough for me to get full so I was happy.

After dinner we had cake and ICE CREAM! The kitchen staff here is absolutely amazing. We hadn't had ice cream all program so it was a perfect last day treat.

We all ordered t-shirts and we pitched in a little extra so that we could surprise the staff with shirts too. They loved them. They all put them on immediately. Then we went and got our shirts and took a whole bunch of pictures with everyone.

After the pictures we sat by the campfire. Ninah tried to teach us how to whistle his way but I completely failed. Chiara almost passed out because she kept trying to whistle and failing. Then Alexa showed us the dance moves that Abel had showed her. That was hilarious.

In the morning there were even more pictures and goodbyes. I almost missed the group picture because I was in the bathroom. And when I ran up to jump in the picture I almost fell down the hill everyone was standing on. Luckily Palo caught me. I didn't feel too badly though because Cecelia also almost fell down the hill.

In the shopping center we stopped at on the way to the airport I got a salsa wrap. It didn't have lettuce but it had fresh tomatoes, avocado, some kind of spinach or something and a chicken salad like mixture. It was amazing. I was so stuffed by the end of it I felt kinda sick. It was totally worth it though! 

After an hour or so at the shopping center we were pointed in the direction of our hotel. We walked out with  no idea what we were looking for (other than the name) or how far away it really was. Luckily we stumbled upon the backpackers' hotel after a couple of blocks.