Today we got our first lie-in, yay! Well not quite, as a huge group on a school trip had moved in across the hall and were extremely noisy...thank goodness it was only for one night! More shockingly, the school bus arrived 4 minutes early , which was a first! On the way to school we stopped off at a bakery to collect 600 small cakes for the girls as a leaving present. We weren't sure how we would fit all of these into the bus, but luckily Robert saved the day (y...

Today we went to a market by Lake Victoria to buy some fruit for the staff at Nakanyonyi, but unfortunately the fruit took too long to arrive and we had to leave. Nevertheless, it was a really interesting place to see (and stunk of fish!) We reached school hoping to do a quick drama project with the girls, but found out they were all too busy rehearsing for tomorrow's music and dance competition. Instead, we gave out some gifts to the girls, including dominos, ...

This morning we woke up early and wished Jess a Happy Birthday. She opened the all her cards and a present from all of us - a green necklace which, unfortunately, she couldn't wear today as we were going to Welcome Home Orphanage, and we didn't want any children to break it! We walked to the orphanage and arrived at 9.00, although we were supposed to arrive at 8.45 (looks like we are adjusting to Ugandan time). The orphanage were also on Ugandan time and we wait...

We woke up early again today, so we had enough time to finish off our mural. We went straight to school and set to work as soon as we got there. We had some difficulties mixing the skin colour for one of the girls, as we didn't have the right coloured paint (having been promised red paint by the shop 3 days ago!) An even bigger problem arose when it started to rain, so we hurriedly packed the paints away and took shelter in the staff room. When the rain didn't s...

This morning we went on a hunt for red paint for our mural (as only the blue and yellow had arrived) as we wanted to make our day as productive as possible. However, after traipsing round almost all the paint shops in Jinja to no avail, we admitted defeat and headed to Nakanyonyi. We painted as much as we could - the body of the LEH girl and the uniform of the Nakanyonyi girl. We were finished by about 12.30, and so spent time chatting to the girls before lunch....