I JUST BUNGEE JUMPED!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOO!!!!!!!

It was the single most terrifying experience of my life but so incredible too! I wasn't nervous at all going there and booking it and watching people jump. But as soon as they got me harnessed up and made me climb onto the platform it all seemed so real. I had to sit down and have my legs wrapped in towels and tied together, I felt so nervous. Then when he got me to stand up and walk to the edge I didn't think I could jump but I DID!!! He counted to 5 and then I leapt, I didn't do it very well I was pretty nervous. Falling for the first time I actually didn't make a sound but I was screaming inside my head, I thought I was going to die. But as soon as the cord was fully extended and I bounced back it was amazing just bouncing up and down upside down. I loved it!!

Then you just hang around upside down for a while until someone comes down to turn you the right way up and then you get pulled up. It was SO exhilarating!!! I frickin' LOVED it!!!!!!! I bought the video too but obviously as nothing is simple here with computers I can't put it up but I've got the photos up already.

So as you can tell I am back in Livingstone again. This morning I went to the Church programme again and it was even sadder than the clothes giveaway day. Today was the Saturday that they feed the children. I helped cook two big pots of nshima, two pots of beef and lots of fried cabbage. The children all queued up and there must have been double the amount there normal is, probably 200 children all wanting food. We served all the food and about 70 children were left with none. This time I did actually cry. Their sad little faces and empty bowls just broke my heart, they were like black Oliver Twists. I reminded one of the helpers that we had put some in another pot and she said that was for the helpers not the children. So after the children were sent away without food the helpers all sat down to big portions of food. I refused to eat mine, how can I eat the food knowing that children were turned away with nothing?? I had a bit of a cry about it in my room :( It's so hard, I just want to help every child but whatever we do it doesn't seem enough and there's always some that go without. It makes me really sad.

Ivor's going back to Copperbelt today, he asked me for more money for accommodation on top of what I have already paid and I can't afford to give it to him, I also don't feel like I should, I came out here under the pretence of paying $600 for 4 weeks if it's going to cost more the company should have been upfront about it. The little money I have has to last me for the next 5 months. This means Ivor doesn't have enough money left out of what I've already paid to cover his accommodation here too so he's leaving. I am going to miss him as we've got along really well and he's been very good to me but I am looking forward to a couple of days independence too.

I'll probably write again before I head off to Australia. Hope everyone is well.

Love xxxxxxxxxx

p.s. Wooooohoooooo!!!!!!!!