Well, I'm beginning to feel more Ugandan! I've now been given a clan and a clan name! I'm a member of the Mamba clan (lungfish) a very ugly creature that gives its name to the largest clan in Uganda. Following a family meeting they decided on my name, 'Namubiru'. To explain quickly in Uganda you don't have a family name you instead have a clan name. This however isn't the same as your parents , each person has their own name selected from about 60 choices that ...

I know I mention this every blog and to everyone I speak to but ITS REALLY HOT! I have only seen rain once this year. Last week I was talkign to someone from Australia last week and they said that although its 45 degrees there, they found the heat here difficult to deal with as there is no air conditioning (except in Barclay's!). On Wednesday many places in the afternoon stopped working and there was a national prayer for rain afternoon as many of the crops are b...

Holidays are officially over and its back to work! Sunday night I had exactly the same feeling of the night before school goes back as I did as a pupil. Monday morning, Beth and I were both suddenly surprised by finding another 3 teachers had been employed at school. While this does take the pressure off us teaching almost constantly it does give the potential for us getting very bored very quickly as on average we now are only teaching two lessons a day. This te...

'Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents' well they got that wrong although it was the oddest Chrsitmas I've ever had!Preparations began the day before as one of the pigs were slaughtered and we spent the entire afternoon going back and forth for waterto the spring ( a 40 minute round trip) to collect water for all the guests comming. I would like to announce my achievement at this point that I can now carry 10 litres of water- though everyone else can ...

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...