Christmas!!! So after a few days stay in Kampala and back at project we headed to the Ssese Islands for Christmas. These are a small cluster of islands in the middle of Lake Victoria. The ferry left from Entebbe - so the night before we left we decided to spend a night there. We went for the camping option and thoguht it would be fine if we used the rubbish tent with no pegs, as it would never rain....famous last words. Me and Sarah were sharing the tent. We sta...

Travelling Kampala -Kabale -Kigale (Rwanda) -Kabale - Fort Portal - Mubende - Kampala So, since I wrote my last blog a lot of stuff has happened.The school year finished towards the end of November , when the children sat their end of term exams. If they pass they move up to the next class, if not they stay behind to resit. There are some of the children who have already done their year several times. Justine and I had the treat of marking the exam papers. Mo...

Blog - Jinja mark 1 and 2This blog entry is about a month late but oh well....For the last 2 weeks we have spent our weekends in jinja - a town to the east of Kitega - and the source of the River Nile. The first of these was for my birthday and the second for parnter's Blair and Gregg's birthday. We celebrated this in stile by white water rafting down some of the fiercest rapids in the world. As I'm pretty scared of water, to be honest, the idea fo this terrified...

Lwakhakha So on the next free weekend we had, we decided to visit our friends Benny and Finn in Lwakhakha (silent L.) This is a town which borders Kenya, which meant we were able to take a quick stroll over the border just to buy some paraffin as it is apparantly cheaper there - althoguh probably only buy about 10p but y'know every little helps...On ther border there was one of the most disgusting sites I have ever seen. There is a massive tree that is literal...

Weekend Fun I haven't written this for ages, been verrry busy! Our weekdays have been pretty much the same as ever - but our weekends have been pretty hectic over the past few weeks! Our first thing was that our friend Blair came to visit (his partner Gregg had decided to go to the other side of the country - he apparantly couldn't deal with spending a weekend with 3 Scottish people!) We didn't do much for the whole weekend but it was good to be able to have s...