Greg James updates his Radio 1 blog…
Good evening lovely people.
Wow. What a da 
y. Exhausting – so so tired, we are all so almost over this week of hell and high water. One last big push tomorrow and we’ll be very happy campers.
Today was a long old slog – unending winding river with really dodgy bits full of hippos which, at times, were incredibly threatening.
I have learned so much this week – a real life changer. I’ve always seen this place like we all have on Comic Relief films, but being here I can report back (and you can trust me) that the money you raise is absolutely working. It’s putting kids through school so THEY can shape a decent future for themselves. The cause works – I’ve seen it for myself. So if you’ve donated this week – thank you.
Bedtime. Shattered. ONE more day. We’re ready.
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There’s an etiquette to approaching a hippo in the water. You slow down, of course, and you beat the side of your kayak gently with your paddle to send a vibration through the water as a polite alert of your presence. Then you slip your kayaks into a single-line formation, cross to the other side of the river and slip quietly past. That’s the theory anyway. When you have six first-time kayakers like us, it’s not as easy as it sounds…
Secondly, we still haven’t mastered the steering issues that me flung me out of the boat and left me clinging to a tree. Our single-file line tends to veer randomly from side to side – so randomly that Mel C said the only music that would fit over footage of us being attacked by a hippo would be the Benny Hill theme tune.