The previous blog had to be cut short due to battery running out. Continued.. At our school there has been 10 student teachers who are studying atour local university, they were carrying out one months work experience at our school. One of the boys Arias had his 19th birthday on Wednesday. He told me that he celebrates it on facebook by getting comments from his friends because that's what makes him happy. He then asked how I celebrate in England, the contrast ...

It was a national holiday on the Tuesday just gone for the celebration of Ede. Therefore we had the day off school which meant a lie in - rarity here! Mid morning myself, Matthew (an Australian 26 yr old guy we're living with who is volunteering like us), Daniel a 19 yr Austrian doing the same as Matt, Agnes's our host and our two friends Tedison and Mark took a walk up a massive hill to collect wood to build a new fence around our home. When Agnes invited me for...

After 6 weeks of searching for good internet connection I've finally found a strong stable link to update my blog. So where do I start to put the past 6 weeks into words? The only way that I can describe my experience so far is utterly bonkers, from seeing people cycling on pushbikes with sofas tied to the back to 11 people being squished into an everday mondeo car - Uganda is nothing like home! September 2nd at 7:15am myself and the other 21 volunteers touched ...