We woke up at about 8.30, ready for the bus to pick us up and take us to the school at 11. Firstly we went for a walk, to check out the local restaurants and hotels in Jinja. While walking, we met a boy that lived locally called Jeffrey, who joined our group for about 10 minutes, asking us about life in London. He thought we were a family! We found a beautiful restaurant called '2 Friends', with a pizza oven (!), we booked a table and were very excited. On the wa...

We had an early start this morning and were up at 6.30! After a simple breakfast we were picked up by the school bus and saw the school for the first time. After talking to a few of the girls we headed to assembly, which turned out to be outside. We sat at the front and introduced ourselves, and then listened to the girls sing the Ugandan national anthem and their school song - it was a lovely welcome and very inspiring! The head girl spoke to the rest of the sch...

Jambo friends and family! We arrived in Uganda today at 7.30am local time. We were met by about 15 girls from Nakanyonyi Girls School at the airport, and got a chance to talk to them face to face for the first time. They were extremely friendly and polite - they offered to wheel our suitcases from the airport to the bus. On the bus journey to the hotel, we got to know them a little better, by talking about things like their average school day, their families and...