Had a pretty awesome week so far!
Friday, Joe and I went to Valley View, I taught P4 Maths pretty badly as it was long division and trying to explain subtract and bring the next number down to them when they obviously didn’t understand was a little frustrating! However after watching assembly WHICH I LOVE SO MUCH (!!) with all the dancing and clapping, Joe and I joint taught an English lesson about adjectives. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN. We explained what it meant, where an adjective came in a sentence, and gave them some examples. We then split the class in half and made a competition as to which half could think of the most adjectives. We were stared at with totally blank faces… However, they got SO into it! Unfortunately my team lost by 3 words but they really enjoyed it, they ended up singing to us so we busted some moves out which they found hilarious apparently…
The weekend was THE BIG ONE in Kampala. Five of us bundled in a matatu (which was unusually comfy!!) and arrived early for the rugby as 6 of our friends are on the Nile team at Kampala Rugby Club so we sat down and had a drink. Naturally, it turned out we were at the wrong rugby club, but we soon got to the right ground and watched the most entertaining match ever – Jinja Nile got a spectacular first (and only) try…only to then get thrashed for the next hour or so. Four red cards and two yellow cards later, the game was called off ten minutes early for fighting!
RANDOM:
The evening was awesome, we met up with the AVs who were also in Kampala and went to a bar called Iguana. The occasional night of English music is massively welcomed, but it was the hottest bar I’d ever been to so we swiftly moved onto Casa Blanca! A random Ugandan at Iguana had told us about this place, it was a house converted to a club so it just felt like a massive houseparty! AMAZING.
The morning after however, was HORRENDOUS! It was a Sunday morning, and in Jinja it’s pretty much dead because everyone’s at Church, but in Kamapala it was HEAVING. We braved the worst two taxi parks in East Africa - there were cars EVERYWHERE, matatus weaving in and out, bodas trying to run you over, the smell so bad you gagged…HO-RRI-BLEEEEE! It was so amazing to come back to Jinja and walk up our little orange road hearing the birds and trees to the guest house!
Kampala:
Our road in Jinja:
This week also saw the rebirth of ASCO (now legal and everything!) which is exciting!! They have a great new house with tonnes of land and so much potential:
Here are a few old pictures of a mural they painted a few weeks ago just off Main St, and some of our trip to their village, Masesse:
Me with two Annette and Agnes from ASCO. Unfortunately, they can’t be part of ASCO anymore as the long term plan is to provide a home for the street kids and apparently they’re not allowed to have both boys and girls…
7 year old Peter (far right) and his family in Masesse:
Imagine at least a mum, maybe a dad, an auntie, about four or five kids, maybe a gran all living in that one mudhut… :
Wednesday was BUNGEE DAY and Joe’s birthday and we literally went ALL OUT. Most of the day was spent in preparation because, naturally, in Uganda, nothing is ever done early if not on time! Miles and I went splits on some African shorts we knew he loved and wrote him a SHORTSTYLE GUIDE involving pictures of how to wear the shorts: The Tweedledee, The Badass, The Turban, The Superman. Tom and Sophie made ‘The Ten Commandment of LAD’ all about how thou shalt not wear clean underwear etc. All in all, one of my favourite days so far!
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