Right, so what's been happening the last few weeks...

Well Molkie and I, along with Sophie and Vic, are part of the Kampala Amateur Dramatics Society production of Sound of Music! Haha, a bit odd I know, but should be fun! We auditioned on 13th February and had our first rehearsal, just a read through, on the 25th. I got the part of Rolph, the 17 year old delivery boy person turned Nazi youth...

We've been trying to kit out the house as well. We've bought 1 shelving unit for cooking stuff and food and another one for all our stuff (still not clothes, so STILL have all our clothes in our bags) We bought 2 charcoal stoves for 3000/= each and lots of cooking utensils, a wok and 2 saucepans. We still haven't received our triple bunk bed even though it was originally meant to be ready over a week ago. But we're getting used to our new place and much prefer it to the old place even though we have no electricity now.

The rainy season seems to have started early... It's meant to start in March but the rain started a couple weeks ago. It's really annoying cos it makes the roads leading up to our house reeeeaaaally muddy, which means that even when the bed IS ready, it'll be a nightmare to get back to the house. Oh and the carpenter doesn't work in the rain. Our roof sounds like it's made of tin when the rain hammers off it at 4 in the morning, and we've had wet, finished laundry sitting in a basin for a few days because it's never dry for long enough to hang it out.

My luganda has been improving. I now know numbers up to 10,000 (but not numbers like 3,673, just nice round numbers like 3,700), so I can barter in complete luganda ('Oli otya nyabo?' 'Bulungi ssebo, oli otya?' 'Bulungi, mecca?' 'Kuminyamubitanu' 'neda, kumisatumubitanu?' 'neda' 'unsallylako nyabo' 'kuminya' 'kale')...well it makes sense to me!!

We've made a food rota to make buying food and stuff easy. It's sunday now so tonights fried egg night! =D

Speaking of food, lunch time at school is my most dreaded time of the day. Every day it's posho and beans, a foul combo! The beans would be fine, but they're made really badly and having had it with posho every day the last few weeks, it now makes me want to gag. Posho is basically this white, dense, chewy starch overdose in solid blocks, and I just can't stomach the stuff anymore, so we're thinking we'll just go home for lunch most days.

We've had Sophie and Heather over the last 2 weekends, with Oscar and Shaun joining us last weekend and Vic this weekend, which has been fun!

Someone has asked me to do guitar lessons at this music school, which is an honour but I really don't want to!! So I think I'm just gonna see if I can do it maybe once every few weeks in the evening.

Our timetable troubles haven't improved that much. I actually got quite angry at the headmistress and said things like 'We're the first volunteers here so we get to decide if they send volunteers here next year!' So we've decided that when they do make the completed timetable we're gonna just choose out the lessons that we want to teach seeing as we've specified how many lessons we want to teach a week and they claim that there'll be 2 teachers for each subject, which is stupid.

So the last few weeks haven't really been that eventful...But we're planning on going to Rwanda at some point in March, maybe around mid-March! We've heard it's REALLY expensive so I think we'll just got for a few days, see the genocide museum which we've been told we have to see and then come back.

Cheers,

Ben