Kayakin´Tom

Sunrise on the mighty river - definitly one of my most favourit moments out there!

Another week has gone by and there are only 10 days left for me in Uganda! I´ll definitely be parting with a laughing and a crying eye...

One one hand I really look forward to Winter and snowboarding on the other hand I´d love to stay here longer because of work and the people here and f course because of the kayaking!

I´ve been making quite some progress on the waves of the mighty White Nile – and a big part of this because of all the good advice I got on the weekends! Thank you very much Claire – I definitely had my best and funniest hours on the waves with you! One of it was my first ever Panam – and it is even on the video that was running for after-paddling video coaching! And of course Brendan, Dennis and Paul – thanks very much for the awesome times! Unfortunately Brendan and Paul left on Sunday after an awesome party and Claire and Dennis left the country today. So there is only one weekend left for me to go to the Hairy Lemon and work on my new moves: Panams and Backblunts – but I´ll make the best of it!

The clinic is busier every day and I´ve seen some cases that can only be seen as an even bigger failure in the already quite error-prone Ugandan health care system: a combination of sever malnutrition with a hydrocephalus plus signs pointing to sever malaria with complications equals the worst outcome you can imagine. We still try to help those kids but this feeling of utter helplessness is quite powerful.

Another sunrise 

And again - just fooling around with the colours!

 Beautiful colours of an early morning

Old boat vs. new kayak

A worldchampion - already smiling at 06:45 in the morning - and ready for another day in paradise! 

Guess what - another sunrise 

Early morning sessions on Club Wave - best light ever while Dennis is rippin´it! 

Dennis at work

In the meantime I got an amazing book to read: "Living the best day ever" - the memoir's of Hendri Coetzee! A truly inspiring book and lots of it happened right here where I sit now and type these lines...
It´s a book I can highly recommend - and it´s a fast read too.