So the flights were loooong but luckily in the 21st century KLM have a library of films and interactive sudoku for us to keep ourselves entertained! Martin (link man) and Fred (head at St James') picked us up and we experienced the CRAZY Ugandan driving. We almost died about five times because lorries decided to overtake in front of us!
The Guest House is awesome, by the time we'd got there everyone had already arrived, there are 12 of us in total from 5 different schools. It's very nice to go out for the day in Jinja or go the schools and be able to come back to people in exactly the same position as you, finding everything as weird as you do or as shocking! I'm sharing a room with 2 girls from Wolverhampton who are really nice :)
Saturday, we went to a Graduation Ceremony. So this involved a mass to bless the graduates and then (I feel I have to emphasise this point) 4 HOURS OF SPEECHES, I am not even exagerating! There was speeches from about five women claiming to be the graduate’s mother, one father, two grandparents, about 100000 friends, head teachers, primary school teachers, you name it – they speeched it (in English and Lusogan to make it better!). Even Martin said it was ridiculous how long it was! But the food - motoke (banana and potato), beans, posho (corn starch), g-nut sauce (grey peanut butter tasting liquidy slop) and rice - and the dancing with the locals totally made up for the most boring hours of my life! We met so many people who welcomed us and made some friends who've offered to show us the best places in town. We finished the night in a club called Sombreros which was AWESOME although it did kindof smell of the 80s room at Oceana!
On Sunday night we went to Martin's pub to watch the football on Sky. It's more of a shack which in England would probably hold 30 to 40 people but this one had 170 Ugandans squeezed on 15 benches watching two different games on 3 TV sets. It was very odd. But Martin took good care of us and bought us a Rolex (chapati type pancake with egg rolled in it, it's SO GOOD) so we're going back this Sunday to help him and Grace (his wife) serve the drinks.
The weather is pretty intense, it's apparently the hottest month in 5 years making it fairly difficult to cover up!!
Love to everyone :)
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