Repelling

Today was the day that a few members of our group were going to test themselves with their personal fears. Today we would be repelling off waterfalls and cliffs. There were many different emotions running high before we started the adeventurous excursion. A few of us needed a little moral support when they finally realized that we would be hanging from ropes and clips a few hundred feet above the ground.

When we arrived at the house that started the tour, we got into the appropriate gear needed and listened carefully to the correct way to repel, since only one or two of our group memebers have done this amazing sport before. Once we were all ready to go we loaded the car and drove for a few more minutes to where we would begin our excursion.

We were told that if we didn't get soaking wet while we were repelling and hiking then the tour guides were given the right to make sure that we ended the tour with not even an inch of dry clothing, and boy did they make sure that happened!

There were a total of four repel obstacles that we had to complete.Two of them were short while the other two made me even nervous to look over the edge of the platform. As we were repelling on the first set of rocks when one of our tour guides, Ronny, decided to splash us with the freezing cold water. The groups then started to break down into about five or six people. That was when my group plotted against him and got him completely soaking wet. We had just climbed down a small ledge and before he knew what was happening we all were splashing him and laughing. Little to our knowledge the next ledge that we had to climb down we had to jump into water up to our necks. We thought we were so smart, but found out we were all getting wet no matter what.

After three or four hours of repelling and hiking through the jungle we finally reached the end of our tour. On the bus ride back to our hotel we started singing songs that the tour guides requested. It ended with the ten of us students at the kareoke club singing to out tour guides later that night.