I WENT BUNGEE JUMPING TODAY!!! And it was awesome. We woke up at 530am this morning and drove to Jinja in time for a group of us to go white water rafting on the nile, which has some of the best rapids in the world but they are not going to be very good a year-ish from now because of a new dam that's being built. I'm not much of a white water rafting fan so me and 3 other people decided to tag along and find something else to do.
The platform is about 150 feet suspended above the nile river. I was scared out of my mind and debated for the 10 minutes before my jump whether I needed to focus more on not puking or not peeing my pants (luckily I did neither). Once I somehow managed to get myself to jump off the platform though I had a great time. I did a tandem jump with one of my friends, who is tiny, and our instructor said that we had one of the best bounces he had ever seen. We freefalled, face first until we literally got about 1 foot away from the river and then bounced back about 3/4 of the way up, got all the way to being vertical with our heads up, and then flipped over and dove back down. The video is pretty ridiculous. I'll put it online with pictures as soon as I can.
For now I'm going to bed though. Gotta rest up. Tomorrow me and one or two other people decided to wake up early and go do a single jump or two (maybe try a trick or something? If nothing else at least get myself to keep my eyes open during the moment I launch myself off the platform) before we meet everyone else to go on an ATV safari. I love weekends!
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