White Water Rafting down the Nile

I went to Uganda with a group from my business school in April on a Gates Foundation grant doing infant HIV diagnostics work. While we were there, I had the opportunity to white-water raft…down the hardest rapids in the world.  I was really scared and told my friends before I left for Uganda that I didn’t think I could do it. Even the night before, I had cold feet and wasn’t sure I could go through with it.

… but I did.

That day was one of the most memorable days of my life for many reasons, but mostly because of Suzanne. She would have been so into hearing about GHI, our devices, and our time in the country.  Suz’s exact words for this challenge were “white-water raft down a difficult river”, not a Class 5 rapids. But Suz would have liked the Nile more than any pip-squeak little river!

This picture was clearly taken before I knew what I was getting myself into (and apparently I thought I was in the middle of a photo shoot–I’m in the pink helmet in the back):

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Rapids and a flip:

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In this one, my arm looks like it’s about to snap off, but I was NOT letting go of that rope…in true Suz fashion.

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 - Gailor Large, friend from Princeton

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