June 14 (Day 3) Praising the Lord and waterfalls
This morning we went to a church service at Tovutovu. The service was awesome. I honestly thought it was better than any other church service. The preacher was so inspirational about how we are all one big family. It poured every time we stepped out of the van today, so everyone whipped out their rain jackets while hiking. We went to two waterfalls. A woman named Angie and her husband from the village we are going to stay at came along with us. At the first waterfall, we climbed up behind the waterfall but soon were told not to jump off of it. Our leaders said it was too dangerous which was ironic because a whole group of doctors were jumping off of it and it was even more dangerous climbing down from it. We had to hike in the jungle to get to the second waterfall. On the way there we had to cross this scary thin rope bridge. There was a max. of 10 people to go on it at once. This bridge was like one of those in adventure movies. When we finally got to the waterfall, we had to swim upstream to get there. It was literally like swimming in one of those lap pool things. Someone thought they saw a snake while we were swimming and everyone started to freak out by struggling to get out of the water. It turns out they were just joking. Once we used all our energy to swim to the waterfall, we watched Angie jumping off the rocks. She was like a dolphin. Finally we started back to where our clothes and Bora were left to hike back to the village. It was a lot easier to swim back because it was downstream. A lot of people fell one after the other down the slippery stairs from the bridge. It was so funny. Everyone was falling one after the other just like bowling pins. Once we finally arrived at the village we ate dinner. And of course it was more chicken. After dinner when we were getting in the vans, Katie slammed the metal seat on Liz's foot. That was the loudest shout I have ever heard. On the way back, we saw random farm animals everywhere near the road. Katie was talking to me the whole way back to Tovutovu, so I got to learn a lot about her.
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