Fourteen Falls

The boys got bored so on Sunday they decided to go jump off fourteen falls and i went along (once again i found myself in a car full of boys, this seems to happen fairly often, generally, not just in kenya though that too)

So we rolled up at this place and had loads of money taken off us by some guy (he ran up after we'd moved his rope and driven through the enterance). It was pretty much the middle of nowhere. A load of kenyan guys came up and offered to take us over the top and show us where to jump for 3000 shillings (about 25 quid). The guys laughed at them and said nah lets go swim around at the bottom and see for ourselves. So they left me persuading the kenyans i didnt want to be taken over the top and went and swam about.

In the end we let them take us accross (after phil told them very firmly we were not paying that much). They took us to the other side, a random kenyan holding my hand most of the way, (it was pretty slippy and all over the place) to a nice big deep safe pool to jump first. By now my shorts were wet anyway and i looked down from the top and though hmm i actually qould quite like to jump off too.. in the end i jumped off a slightly lower one. (about 20ft/6metresish). I stood there looking at the water and thought hey i just got to do it! Threw myself of the rock, shut my eyes and screamed like a girl till i hit the water! Then i did it again without the eye shutting and screaming, it was pretty cool you had time to watch the water rushing up at you! The water was abosolutly disguisting though, don't even want to know what was in there! Still felt nice to be swimming in a river though =)


Then they went and jumped off the insane bit where there was like a 6ft diameter pool at the bottom you had to land in and all round that was like waist deep!! I was left in the middle of the river on a rock to take photos, only no one ever came back with the camera so i was stuck there till they sent a kenyan guy to take me back! Im glad i couldnt see how close i was to the edge on the way back! Joe and Adrian said they were more scared watching me being taken accross by like 5 kenyans than watching phil and nick jump off... One point the guy leading me fell and i was sure he was gunna take me down with him and we'd both be swept away! (The water was pretty strong) but it was fine and i survived to tell the tale! Got pretty sunburnt but hey it was well worth it! Your game now is to find where the top picture fits in the bottom picture (look top left hand) was pretty cool sitting there! And a nice view down the river and over AFRICA too.. hah

Power Women's Group - Kibera Slum

So this afternoon we went to Kibera Slums to visit the 'Power Women's Group'. This is a group of ladies who got together to try and support themselves. They make jewellery and some clothes and bags and things and sell them and share all the money they get from it.

We are going to go every week to do a bible study with them, they gave them bibles a few weeks ago and its amazing how excited they are to have them! 'I am so happy, now when i go to church i have my own bible, i don't have to look at my neighbours.' - a lady called Elizabeth, one of the few who can speak english. There were only 7 of the 14 women there today and a lady called Grace who is a social worker who has some connection with ACTS and came and translated for us.

It's amazing, some of the ladies stories and how little they know and yet how sure they are of what they believe. It's such a contrast from people in England.

Elizabeth told us her testimony, she was pregnant and she'd had labour pains for 3 days and her whole leg was swollen up. When they managed to get her to hospital she was told her baby was dead and she had to push it out to stop her dying too but she didn't have any strength to. As she was lying there she prayed and suddenly got strength to push and gave birth to a live baby (to the confusion of the doctors)! Some of the others had pretty amazing stories too.

So we came away having done out little bible study and felt as Moon (another volunteer who came on monday) said that we'd learnt a lot more than we'd taught!