Uganda - Second week.

Uganda was a tremendously friendly place and the people were by far the most amazing thing about the country.

The children seemed to be intrigued, excited and always very happy to have their photograph taken.

Here Cassandra is making bracelets with the children and I am hanging out with Joviah.

Practising verbs with the P3 class.

During Physical Education. We had around 90 students to teach first period - it was every bit as hectic and crazy as you are probably imagining.

Some of the children were sons and daughters of the teachers or lived with the headmistress so we saw them every evening too.

In the p6 classroom.

The latrine - our lovely toilet for the month. I can feel my bowels tightening just looking at this image.

The shower area.

The yellow jerry cans were our water for each day and to the left of the green bag is a charcoal stove where all of our meals were cooked.

Washing by hand - almost impossible to get rid of the red dirt and you never really get anything clean. It would be another several weeks before we got a proper chance to do laundry though  

Cassandra washing her hair with a little help form her friends.

Shaving by candlelight with a bic razor - can now cross that off of my 100 hundred things to do before I die.

Blowing up the world.

Our table - consisting of food and teaching supplies.

Hanging out with Jonah and Jehoviah - they came everywhere with us.

Here the children had got hold of some jack fruit so look pretty happy about that but still managed to pose for the camera.

Breakfast with J&J.

After a few days on the Ssese Islands, we had been made to feel so welcome largely due to the amazing people who are the friendliest we have ever met, anywhere.

As you will see from the pictures, life was somewhat primitive.  We stepped back a few thousand years - cooking with fire, no running water or electricity and using a long drop.  This let me practice at being an 'outdoorsman' whilst Cassandra was living out her worst nightmares and it certainly provided some challenges. Looking back though, there are so many positive memories from such a short time and this is exactly the experience we hoped for when travelling to Africa.