For those of you who know me well, you'll know I have just a slight obssesion with tea (particuarly Yorkshire! Other than in Kampala I've managed to live without it for six weeks now. In Uganda they have a thing called Chai. It is water that is boiled with crushed ginger. In school they have also started to prepare it with milk for us- which tastes nothing like you would imagine! The other thing is ith chai it is taken with a MOUNTAIN of sugar, no teaspoons are u...

Ossis Otya (Goodmorning) Its Independence today in Uganda so I'm not sure how busy it is going to be particuarly as I'm currently in Kampala the capital. However it is also possible that Uganda will be fairly quiet today following their lack of success in the football match yesterday. Literally Uganda has gone football crazy for the last couple of days! Travelling into Kampala on Friday the radio on the taxi had the football songs on repeat and there were loads...

Well here it goes an attempt to write a proper blog entry from Uganda. If I'm honest I've attempted a couple of times but everything is just so different and alien that I've had and still have no idea exactly what to tell you or where to begin. But here it goes… (Finally got around to it Claire and MumJ) I guess the best thing to do is go back to the beginning and start there. Arriving in Uganda we spent the first couple of days in Kampala, the capital. All...

Oli Otya? I'm in Uganda!!! I can't quite believe it! This will have to be a quick blog as only have 9 minutes of internet left to use having spent the last bit answering emails. Anyway its very hot here!! And everything is taking ages to get use to and I'm very cultured shocked which all being well will pass soon. Currently Beth and I have been spending most of our time boiling water on a charcoal stove and attending teaching meetings. Teaching starts on Monday....

Can’t believe I’m leaving later today. Is definitely one of the strangest feelings! One moment I can’t wait to go and the next minute I don’t want to leave. Anyway at 4.30 pm I fly out from Uist and change planes at Glasgow airport before heading down to Heathrow. Then at 8.00pm tomorrow I’m off to Uganda via Kenya!!! Finally managed to finish packing, unfortunately there were a couple of casualties that didn’t quite squeeze into the suitcase so wil...