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Despite being told "you don't got o Uganda for the foods" me and Justinwe are managing to eat rpetty well. Admittedly, food given to us by other people is generally pretty bland - porridge, posho and beans, rice etc. Basically carbohydtae central. Their helping sizes are like mountians, its acutlaly ridiculous how such small people eat so much. I will probably be rolling by the time I get back. Bananas are now beignning to form the main part of my diet - I can easily eat 3 or 4 days and actually don't think i'd be able to function without them. There is also loads of fruit like pineapple, paw paw, and jackfruit. Jqckfruit is extreeemely weird. It's got a pretty rubbery texture - it apparantly flavours the chewing gum Juicy fruit" - which is prett ironic considering how unjuicy it is! Where we live grows looooads of sugar cane which is excellent because its amazing!!! We can buy a stick which is taller than us for 100Ush - about 3p. Good deal I'd say. You have to rip off the bark like skin with your teeth abnd then buit off pieces and chew it until you've got all the sugar juice out and then spit out whats left. Pretty messy, but actually soooo good! Mean I may also come back with no teeth - gummy! ;) Water is also now a MAJOR task. Washing water has to be carried up from the stream at the bottom of the hill from our house in massive jerrycans. This is not too bad, althugh most time it is pretty much the colour of hot chocolate.Mmmm. Drinking water ion the other hand has to be carried a lot further, from the tap on the other sdide of the village. Justine and I carried the jerrycna between us and I still nearly passed out. Made jme feel a bit stupid when one of my p4 kids easily carried the same amount on his head....Ah well....AFter nearly dying it gettign it home, we then have to boil it for 10 minutes on a charcoal stove which is a task in itself. Makes me appreciate a tap in my kitchen a hell of a lot more!!
Education
The education here is, to be honest, pretty much a big shambles. Justine and I are teaching at a scool called Kitega Pride Charity School of Infants, But, when I say school, what I really mean is a collection of children, 2 teachers (us) and a blackboard. The school is incredibly small - with a total of about 20 children. This is pretty ridiculous considering other volunteers are teaching over 100. There are 2 pupils in p6, 12 in p4/5, 2 in p3/2 and 5 in p1. There are also about 10 "babies" who speak virtually no English and are most definately evil. We don't really understand why the school has so few pupils but it seems to be something to do with the old headteacher stealing the pupils school fees to go and start up a new school. Who knows...people are crazy around here. This means Justine and I pretty much teach everything to everyone. Good times... We have some past test papers and the questions are insanely difficult. Half of the stuff I didn't learn until higher and these kids are expected to know it in p4. I'm not surprised there are 16 year olds in p6. The kids are all pretty cool - they are pretty much the only reason I turn up to school everyday. They're are actually so funny. One of my favourite moments, was when I asked p5 what they wanted to learn in science and one boy's face lit up and answered "the gestation period of a leopard." Hahaha....
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Molkie Gotta lovethose kids - keep up the good work! Sounds like you're working hard :D