Summary of my first week (take 2) Saturday (09/01/10) In the morning, all the volunteers (bar Martha, who was in Kenya, and Dan and Rob, who were on the Sesse Islands) came to Isabel and James' to meet up with us and have a chat. We were given our monthly allowance of 125,000 shillings ($80/40 pounds approx) each. Joseph, our host, picked us up and took us shopping for mozzy nets, phones and toilet roll before we all caught a mutatu (taxi van) to Kitega, a ...

Summary of my first week Saturday (09/01/10) In the morning, all the volunteers (bar Martha, who was in Kenya, and Dan and Rob, who were on the Sesse Islands) came to Isabel and James' to meet up with us and have a chat. We were given our monthly allowance of 125,000 shillings ($80/40 pounds approx) each. Joseph, our host, picked us up and took us shopping for mozzy nets, phones and toilet roll before we all caught a mutatu (taxi van) to Kitega, a village j...

The Journey I've had a few times when it just hit me that I'm actually going to Uganda for 8 months. When I was in Australia, these moments have often been accompanied by feelings of sadness and regret, but when I got to the UK all I could feel was excitement. The time it hit me the hardest was on January 7th, at 6pm, right after seeing Molkie say goodbye to his family and girlfriend and Boz saying goodbye to his dad (I said goodbye to Dad, Jane and Euan in Du...

Hey guys. This is my first blog and ive only got 9 minutes before my internet time runs out but i'll try running through a few things thats happened in the last few days. First of all, the flight over was quite eventful. After being delayed in London due to the snow, Molkie, Boz (Rory) and I missed our connection so had to get a flight to Nairobi (Kenya) and then from there to Uganda. For the flight from Dubai to Nairobi we got upgraded to business class whic...