Saturday 21 January 2012

I don't think I have ever been happier about ending a day

These were the instructions I got about today:
"Ok, so on Saturday, we will be taking a stroll around a place where we will see mountains and maybe some animals. The problem is though, that we have to leave at 7.30 because it is a long way with the bus but bring a sandwich just in case you get hungry while we walk around"
When I heard this, I thought to myself "yes ok, taking a stroll around will be kind off nice, also a good oppertunity for me to wear the shoes I will be wearing for Mount Kenya. Yes, 7.30 is early but I can sleep on the long journey with the bus..."

This is what really happened:
I was sleeping, Anna was sleeping over in my room, around 6.20, a teachers comes and knocks on my door, yelling that the bus is leaving in half an hour, so Anna and I had to hurry up with getting dressed and so on. Then I couldn't find my headphones for my Ipod, so I had to run around like a crazy person asking everyone if they had a pair they could lend me and of course, the last person I happened to ask, actually had a pair. Then I made a sandwhich, and went to the bus. I fell asleep on the bus 'cause I haven't gotten a lot of sleep lately. It took like 1 hour to get there (NOT MORE :S). Then when we got there, they told us that we needed more than one bottle water, so I had to go buy some more. Then we started walking, turns out that we were not just going to take a stroll, we were going to hike up 2,800 meters of a volcano. Then I thought it was all ok, it wasn't that hard but Anna got like an attack and could hardly breathe, but she was so good, she made it all the way up. Then when we got up there, it turns out that we were not done. Since, I've had a bad cough and an ear infection, my nurse told me not to walk at all, but I insisted, but then I told my teachers that maybe I had to stop so I would be in good shape for Mount Kenya, but then one teacher told me that if I didn't walk it, I wouldn't be able to walk Mount Kenya, even though there were a bunch of people who were not going to continue walking. Anyways, I decided to walk 'cause it didn't look to hard. It was just to walk around the volcano (like on the volcano) and there were some mountain tips but I just figured "ah, I can do this". So yes, it started off pretty good, but then it got bad and it just kept getting worse. Turned out it was nothing like taking a stroll, it wasn't even hiking, it was climbing up mountains with bare hands. The edge was so close and anyone could fall down there, rocks fell while we climbed and soon enough, my water was finished. I climbed up one mountain tip, and then another. Then I couldn't move anymore, my foot was filled with blisters so I had to stop, lucky me, some of my teachers were on that tip, I took of my shoes, and put band-aids on my blisters, but when I was going to put my shoes back on, one of my legs started hurting so much, I just couldn't put it on, I tried and tried but it just kept getting worse until some of my teachers had to come and help me, they massaged me and stretched it out but nothing worked and the pain just got worse so before I knew, I broke down in tears. Then, I got a panik attack because so many people were around me, so I just forced my shoe on and just walked down the cliff but one of my teachers didn't want to leave me alone, just in case my leg would get worse. Then there was the last cliff left, but the biggest, so I just pulled myself together and climbed up, not caring that I was coughing my lungs out, or that my knee was killing me or that my other leg was hurting. Step by step, I pulled myself up. When I was up, I had the most amazing view. I took a seat, and ´just looked out at the view. I don't remember ever being that tired I was at that moment and because of that, all these feelings just came crashing down at once, and I just kept thinking about the bad things that I have been through in my life and just started crying. Alice came up after a while, completely pale in her face; turned out that she had passed out just before climbing up the hell mountain. She came and sat next to me which felt pretty good. I sunburned my sidecut so my teacher lend me a cap but because of my sideways ponytail, I had to wear it sideways, which made me look like a hip-hoper from 1998. Then Anna and Emila got up, Anna in tears and Emilia collapsed on the ground. Then, it wasn't much left, but the mountain went downwards the rest which was so dangerous because rocks where falling over me, I was so angry at that point, can't remember, that I have ever, I mean ever felt that type of anger, so I just walked away from everyone and just walk alone, listening to music, trying to control my temper. I honestly felt like at that I just needed to punch someone. Then, I saw it, the place I began from, and thank god, people were already there but I didn't wanna stop there, I just wanted to get down from the mountain so that is what I did, and my knee was hurting so much. When I came down, I collapsed on the ground and even threw up a little... NEVER AGAIN!!!!

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