Things I've noticed So usually when I write these blogs I have my journal by my side to remind me of all the little details, but i filled my journal a few days ago, so now waiting to get a new one. Nothing incredibly exciting has happened anyway, so I thought I'd do this blog a bit differently and talk about all the things I've noticed about life in Uganda. Religion Religion has never really been a part of my life, nor has it been a big part of British/Austra...

Update (06-12th February 2010) On 6th February, a big group of us awoke at Backpackers in Kampala to travel to Jinja. Jinja, for those that don't know, is the source of the River Nile. For Sophie's birthday we were all going white water rafting and bungee jumping! The group was Molkie, Boz, Sophie, Emma, Vic, Heather, Emily, Oscar, Shaun and myself. All of us except Heather and Emily went rafting. It was amazing! We travelled 31km down the Nile towards Egy...

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...