Its Been So Long (Uganda, Kenya, and back)

Hey everyone. I am sorry it has been so long since I have written a blog update. I have been a away from a computer for the last couple of weeks and have not had the chance to update you on life here in Africa for me. Well I guess it is almost over since I will leaving in a little over a week. I will try and keep this blog short even though there is so much to share with you. The last three weeks have taken me to many different places including Uganda, Kenya, and Burundi.
A group of friends and I took a trip that began by spending a couple days in Uganda where we were in the city of Kampala. While we were there we spent one day and white water rafted down the Nile river, which was amazing. It is supposed to be tied with the Zambieze river as the number one place in the world to go white water rafting. After uganda we took another long 6 hour bus ride into Kenya to a town on Lake Victoria. While we were in a market there we saw a rush of people leaving and did not think anything of it but when we went to head back to our car we saw like 5 guys standing around it and our driver argueing with them. He told us to rush into the car and said that new word had gotten out about the elections and people were started to riot and the guys around our car kept trying to steal our luggage. It was pretty crazy for a little as we were trying to get to our night train to Nairobi with people rushing out of buildings and leaving their cars to get back to there homes. We got to the train station with no real problem after that headed for nairobi.
We woke up the next morning to find out that we could not make it the whole way to the center of town because some people from Kibera slum (One of the worlds largest slums) had broken the track in protest. We had to stop at the Kibera station to meet our driver and head into town. We went into town and spent 3 days in Nairobi experiencing as much of the city as we could. after our 3 days there be got on another over night train to the coast and Mombasa Kenya.
We woke up the next morning to find our train sitting in the middle of no where and not moving. we had come to find that there was another problem with the tracks and that the train could not go any farther. They told us that we would have to wait 2 hours for busses to come and pick everyone up and take us the rest of the way to Mombasa. so we sat and waiting for what seemed like forever in the hot African heat and sun waiting for the buses to come. When they did we all loaded up on and made the 2 hour trek the rest of the way to mombasa. once we got to mombasa we made are way to the hotel that we were staying at spent the next couple of days relaxing on the beautiful white beaches of Kenya.
We spent a few days in Mombasa Kenya and then flew back home to Kigali Rwanda. We got in late at night went to bed and I woke up early the next morning to grab a bus to Busimbora Burundi to spend a week working with yfc down there. So that was my week and a half in Uganda and Kenya well at least that was a short summary with many other great stories in between. It was great to get a chance to do some traveling while I was over to experience some other parts of Africa. My time in Burundi was awesome but will wait to share about that story in another blog. Now that I am back in Rwanda it is unbelievable to think that I only have one more week here and then I fly home. I am definantly torn in my feelings about going home. A part of me wished my time here was longer but another part of me looks forward to life back in the states.