Round up...............

Okay so lets see - what's been happening.

Things are still all well at the apartments and aside someone being mugged right outside our gate (it was a local person not one of the volunteers) the safety aspects of things is much improved though i do still feel that Iganga is a rather unsafe place particularly for Muzungu's ..

We ran our 2 community events for February, the first which was an SRH event went really well, over 600 high school kids attended and we had a drama group who were educating on SRH issues, the kids absolutely loved it although the content did seem a little inappropriate (even though it was all in local language i could get the jist of what was going on and don't really think it would have gone down well back home, but they loved it). Unfortunately the rain came and everyone left early but the event still ran for well over an hour so all was well. I've some pics and videos i will try to upload but as you can probably tell from the lack of posts on here it is extremely difficult to maintain this blog as i would like to.

For our second event we took a DVD player and TV to one of the remote villages and showed dvds educating about HIV and AIDS at a HIV testing day. Again the weather played its part and after more than an hour of the village people digging holes to put poles for our tent the wind came and blew the whole thing down - epic fail. We salvaged the situation though and instead set the TV under the shade of a big tree and used the tent covers as a blanket for people to sit on. Again got loads of pics so watch this space.

Went to Kampala on Saturday Kampala with one of the local volunteers who was attending a meeting there - the place is completely insane though and i couldn't really handle how chaotic and packed it was and ended up crying about how i miss there being rules to the road and randomly i cried over how i miss cheese! So i decided for the first time to source some home comforts and had Jalepeno Pringles, Cadburys Fruit and Nut and some Haribo! Cher how happy i will be when I'm back and we share our first Magners together!

For the first time since arriving here i have been thinking about home and the people and things i miss. I miss Sally cat so much and just can't imagine how weird yet fantastic it will be to get back and have her waking me up at daft 'o' clock in the morning so i will feed her (cheesy but true).

We're staying in Jinja for 3 days now having some training and i have my own room!!!! All be it a small single room with a single bed but still it will be the first time since leaving the UK that i will get to sleep in a room alone - winner.

The weather is really starting to change and its actually been quite cold a few nights in the past week and ive packed absolutely nothing for cold weather so can feel a justifiable shopping trip approaching - yeay! The rain has come and my god do these people mean rain when they say rain - living in Manchester you'd think i couldn't be surprised by the elements, especially rain, but when it comes down here you honestly feel like you need to get building an Ark! On Saturday on the way to Kampala it was blistering sunshine, easily in the late 20's and then next thing the heavens opened and it started hail stoning! How is that possible - any brain boxes out there who can explain the science behind how it can hail when its hot and sunny....?

Will try my hardest to get some photos uploaded ASAP.

Bye for now...................