thank god for life jackets
many of you know i cannea swim too good, and dispite paulas best efforts in making me awesome at it, im still lame. The last couple of weekends however swimming has been in issue because we went on a couple of trips to some water falls. first weekend we went to the stream witrh a water fall as well, and we all went in the water andd ad a paddle. i however couldnt go much futher then up to me neck cos i was scared and so whist everyone else was havcing fun jumping off water falls i stayed and watched:(. BUT THEN! last weekend, we went on a more official trip to the same stream but further up and the day went like this...
After going to a random mexi party sat night till 4 in the morning, an 8 o clock start was not appreciated. Groggy and tired we all made our way to this speciual bus that had no windows to make our way to this water fall. We were part of a group of about 30 people (mainly mexi people) with this activity company roberto (one of the tpa staff) worked at, and we went off to do canoynning and abseiling for the day.
i didnt know what cannoying was and couldnt be bothered to ask, but what it turned out to be was walking through rivers! this explained why we needed trainers and old clothes. So we started walking through this river climbing up rocks and wadeing through algeeeness, wiping off leeches etc. then it started getting harder, and i had to jump down (or slide as i did) bigger rocks and then it was getting deeped so i had to float ( i had a life jacket which was good) then we climbed up this massive cliff thing and i thought opk its over im soaking wet but now i get to have a nap. But it wasnt over cos we has to jump off this cliff over the other side which was a water fall into the deep water. it was about 12 feet i think tho dont ask me cos im crap with heights, and it took me a good five minutes to pluck up the courage to jump off it. when it was over it was fine, i swallowed a fair bit of water so im prob gonna get some water borne disease but i thought yay i jumped of a water fall woo! then i thought kay home time food yay! but there was another jump which was twice as high off another cliff! that one was proper scary tho i just ran off to get it over with, it was really weird cos it seemed to take ages till you hit water and u feel really heavy when u fall, so now i kinda know what its like to jump off a building or summit, and when i did hit the water its so deep u dont even touch the bottom. i bobbed up and swam away.
afterwards there was more walking though rivers, untill we got to the abseiling but. now THAT was high about 30 metres, and no one really explained how to do it other then just let the rope slip through your hands and keep your legs apart. it started badly cos i fell in a giant spider nest on the eddge and they started attacking me the bitchs! so i was like ahhh nooo! and tried to step on them on the wall whilst hanging, and then it was fine, got a bit of rope burn but the surpise water at the bottom cooled it off.
other then that this week ive been catching baby crocodiles which smell annndd other stuffs!
got 6 and a half weeks left tho yay! in a bizzle fo shizzle !
After going to a random mexi party sat night till 4 in the morning, an 8 o clock start was not appreciated. Groggy and tired we all made our way to this speciual bus that had no windows to make our way to this water fall. We were part of a group of about 30 people (mainly mexi people) with this activity company roberto (one of the tpa staff) worked at, and we went off to do canoynning and abseiling for the day.
i didnt know what cannoying was and couldnt be bothered to ask, but what it turned out to be was walking through rivers! this explained why we needed trainers and old clothes. So we started walking through this river climbing up rocks and wadeing through algeeeness, wiping off leeches etc. then it started getting harder, and i had to jump down (or slide as i did) bigger rocks and then it was getting deeped so i had to float ( i had a life jacket which was good) then we climbed up this massive cliff thing and i thought opk its over im soaking wet but now i get to have a nap. But it wasnt over cos we has to jump off this cliff over the other side which was a water fall into the deep water. it was about 12 feet i think tho dont ask me cos im crap with heights, and it took me a good five minutes to pluck up the courage to jump off it. when it was over it was fine, i swallowed a fair bit of water so im prob gonna get some water borne disease but i thought yay i jumped of a water fall woo! then i thought kay home time food yay! but there was another jump which was twice as high off another cliff! that one was proper scary tho i just ran off to get it over with, it was really weird cos it seemed to take ages till you hit water and u feel really heavy when u fall, so now i kinda know what its like to jump off a building or summit, and when i did hit the water its so deep u dont even touch the bottom. i bobbed up and swam away.
afterwards there was more walking though rivers, untill we got to the abseiling but. now THAT was high about 30 metres, and no one really explained how to do it other then just let the rope slip through your hands and keep your legs apart. it started badly cos i fell in a giant spider nest on the eddge and they started attacking me the bitchs! so i was like ahhh nooo! and tried to step on them on the wall whilst hanging, and then it was fine, got a bit of rope burn but the surpise water at the bottom cooled it off.
other then that this week ive been catching baby crocodiles which smell annndd other stuffs!
got 6 and a half weeks left tho yay! in a bizzle fo shizzle !