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The 31 days of March , seemed to have passed by in the blink of an eye. The vast majority of the month was spent in our village, Kitega. We continued teaching at Kawolo c/u Primary School, and on Mondays and Wednesdays I began to teach at another school - Katunugulu. The school is "deep in the village" as Ugandans like to say and it is very basic. I teach P4 and P5 in a mud building which feels as if it may collapse everytime it rains! The SChool is in the middle of a sugarcane plantation up behind our house and I have so far survived walking there to teach, despite being warned by numerous people that if i do so I will most definately be murdered!
At our new school we have made many new teacher friends which means we have the chance to go on crazy ugandan outings with them. One such event was a couple fo weekends ago when we were invited to attend our friend Esther's church. The service was early so we had to get up at 6.30am (!) to get there on time. When we arrived, we realised the Church was an all singing, all dacning affair. This meant we sat through 3 hours of singers "giving praise" to God, pastors dancing in the aisles, and having to raise up our hands in the air and shout hallelujah! Fun times!
We have also set up for ourselves a weekly visit to Rachael. another teacher's house. There we learn and experience the pelasure of good Ugandan cooking! She has shown us her "chitchen" and has there taught us how to cook chappatis, g-nut sauce, irsh potatoes and greens really well. Mmmmm...We discovred our main problemw as not putting enough oil and salt in everything! We always leaver her house feeling full to bursting point!
Another excitement I have had the pleasure of is going to a Ugandan Police Station. This was because my camera got lost/stolen so I had to get a Police report so I could claim for insurance money. To enter the Police Station you are required to pass by the cells which is just lovely. The smell that is coming out of there in the heat is not all that pleasant and having "eh, muzungu" shouted at you by "convicts" is always fun. Although, I was pleased to note the number of "lunatis" being held was nil!
Throughout this month, we have continued fighting the neverending battle against the rats which seemed determined to colonise our house. Despite the fact we keep our place very clean and there is no food for them there, they still seem set on moving in. We have tried everything - rat traps, rat poison - have blocked up every visible hole and every sing (scream) at nghit to try and scare them off!! However, our sleep is still routinely disturbed by their scratching and squeeking form above and below. To make things worse, thye now even venture into our house during the day! The other day we returned from school to ehar soudns of squeeking below our bed. When we investigated we discovered 2 rats making a little nest behind a blanket. I seriously hope they were not planning on making a family there!! They had used a lot of teared up newspaper, 2 hairbands, 3 ballons, some string and a pair of leggings. Cosy. All this they had somehow dragged across the room. On another occasion, I opened the door in the morning to discover a small boy holding a bottle with a rat scrabbling about inside. How it came to be in there I have no idea, but when I returned from school, I asked where it was gone and told only "The rat is died!"
Tbc...
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