Wednesday 8 February 2012

Settling into life in Iganga

So Jinja at the weekend was pretty sweet. Was nice to catch up with friends, have a beer and watch Manchester United turn around a seemingly impossible situation and draw with Chelsea. Made me proud to be a Londoner. I'm back home in Iganga now and work is starting to gather pace. We have organised to hold a forum with the local MP so that he can address our local youth council on their democratic rights. Tom and I will also be giving a presentation on the British political system which should be interesting. Then on Friday 17th of February we will be holding a sports day in a local school. It will be a combination of playing netball, volleyball and football alongside sensitizing the youth about Sexual Reproductive Health.We are giving a speech and lesson in front of 300-400 kids so should be fun. Thought I would add some pictures up (none of Jinja yet as I didn't take the camera out unfortunately) .

Lunch for the last couple of days at Masala Cafe. Pretty cheap for scrumptious food. Was going to take a picture of what I had but it was too good and I forgot... 

It had been too long without toast....

Scrambled eggs and ketchup. Nothing else one can ask for more in the morning than.

We had a party last Friday night at the grand opening of Club Neanderthal (our living room). We did it with no power, so just torches and small portable speakers. Was sweet. 

Been eating so many Chapatis out here that we thought we should attempt to make some. Yeah we did and they were tasty!

Sarah, Flavia and Wanji. Sarah and Wanji work near us so we walk with them to work sometimes.

This is a flower shop at its earliest stages. I walk past it each morning. Beautiful.

This sums up Uganda for me. Kids collecting water from the well whilst cows are grazing besides them.

This is Iganga centre. These are the boda bodas that people get transported around on. We don't use them in Iganga as they are too dangerous with all the half built roads.