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The team slowly wondered down the path and collected our stragglers from their mud huts and shared the various stories of using the pit latrine's, avoiding stumbling into cows and pigs when finding somewhere to go or what noise of bug or person kept them awake all night. However! we did have mattress' which we bought for us to sleep on and left in the houses for the villagers to have. We got back to the hotel at about 8.30 where had breakfast at the hotel and had a quick shower and snooze.Mid day some people went in Jinja for lunch and others went to NVI, but eventually met up at the school to put the bunting and posters up the team had made and looked at what we had acheived with the support from everyone and the team's man hours.
That night we ate at the hotel buffett and all got some well needed sleep!
Wednesday morning saw us return to the village, however the welcome was alot quieter than the day before. A team of us set off to put up mosquito nets in the houses we were staying in that same night. Some, however, went and got stuck in with the building work. Some perhaps got more involved, such as Mike P when he managed to walk through a pile of mud, which has been prepared to put on the mud hut, and come out minus his shoes.
Lunchtime saw us gather in the central part of the village for another lunch of posho, matooke and beans, however some ate more than others. Wednesday afternoon saw us put together a group of people from the village so we could train them in putting up mosquito nets and show the rest of the village. After this we then gave out mosquito nets to the whole of the village so that they could put them up themselves. The afternoon then consisted for training again, teaching them to make fly traps and tippy taps.
We then make a eit so we could make our way back to the hotel for a quick shower and change and then back to the village we went. Just as we were leaving to go back to the village Jess and Tony returned from their day of white water rafting which they both enjoyed throughouly. After an even quicker shower and change from them, they then made their way into the village to join us for an evening of celebration. After having a goat roast and then been given some posho and matooke for supper, which some gave to the children in the village who would have found it more appatising than us. After some speeches and then some dancing, where the shaking of the bums returned, we all made our way to the houses we were staying in for the evening - followed by a procession of dancing Ugandans and drums. One by one we all made our way into our houses, some of these being mud huts where others were brick built. The pit latrines were not be desired yet we managed to brave them, along with the cockraches and spiders in them during the night.
Passing the beautiful wilderness and people suddenly ended when we shunted into a ditch the side of a muddy hill, the foliage one side stopped people getting out the door so everyone had to jump out the windows Indiana Jones style and start pushing! Thankfully we had purchased 21 pairs of wellies the day before which helped much towards the pushing, panting and heaving of the team before we eventually managed to get started again! When we got to the village the welcome was absolutely overwhelming! The Villagers smothered us in hugs and danced around us to the sounds of the 5 African drums playing.After meeting most the people,we started helping the NVI students who were doing the main building of the projects we were supporting. So it consisted of moving bricks and mapping out measurments, while singing beautifully of course.
That afternoon, to the "delight" of much of the team we were served the usual posho and beans for dinner and again seranaded with shaking bums for a while. Some of the team before hand had put together an educational presentation with puppets to teach about maleria and precautions an how to prevent it, thanks so Sue we were able then to supply each house with a mosquito net which the whole family were able to sleep under.Nigel then did a presentation about how to make fly traps with empty bottles and tippi taps from and old oil bottle and string which is shown to have reduce Diarrhea by 50%, one of the biggest killers in Uganda, so we assisted in making them for each family in the village.
That night Mike had organised for us to each in a resturant in Jinja town, so we all tucked into a few too many pizza's making up for the posho at lunchtime!
Monday morning saw us wake up to a huge thunder and lightening storm which had started through the night. This meant that our plans of going up to the village were put on hold as we would have been unable to get the vans up the road, well that day it would have been more like the River Nile than a road.
Due to the rain Mike came up with a brilliant idea, a team outing to buy Wellington boots, yes that's right, we went and bought 21 pairs of wellies whilst in Africa. Mike managed to organise us very well once we had got to the shoe shop, this was because one of the buses has broken down on the way and had to be pushed off to the side of the road. Thankfully we had a mechanic with us who was able to work out the problem and go and get it fixed.
Once we had all returned to the hotel, all in our wellington boots of course, we got to work on the bunting and the decorations that will be going up in the classroom. The conference room turned into our own little workshop which meant we were able to complete the bunting and the decoration. Surprising there was a few competent male sewers in the group, Dave R; Phil; Steve; David B; who helped us get the work done.
After the service we split up and some people went to JCC and others to Nile Baptist.
At 1 O'clock we made our way to the Kingfisher resort where we enjoyed a relaxing afternoon with Benon and his wife and a couple of people from St. Moses School. While there some people enjoyed a lovely swim while others sat and relaxed in the shade. We then all piled into a boat that picked us up on Lake Victoria, which took us around the coast of the lake and the banks of the Nile where we saw some wildlife, such as monkeys, and we saw the source of the Nile.
Saturday started about 5.00am because of a MAHUSIVE thunder and lightening storm, which meant the water rafting down the nile and horseriding could not be done. A couple of members of the team started on making bunting to decorate the classroom and others set off to the classroom whith a recoat of paint after enjoying a rarther exotic breakfast of fish and chips!
At 4.00 we were challenged to a game of netball against the NVI students. After much deliberation we managed to conjure up a team of 7... even if Nigel was our honerary girl becoming Nigela for the afternoon! And yes... WE WON! Convincing 5-2 victory.
Wednesday night we all met and got Borda Borda's into Jinja town. We enjoyed delicious curry and rice and got to soak in the atmosphere of real Jinja town. Although we did have to have a heads up to take a torch n go in time as the toilet was quiiiiiiiite a walk away!
Tuesday morning started at 7.30 am, we arrived at the schpol at around 9.30am. Where the real work began, after removing an abnormal amount of bat poo from both the walls and celing, we prepared the classroom for painting and glazing after chizziling out al the broken glass and putty from the window frames. Most of us came out looking like umpa lumpas after being covered in orange soil and dust, however one man manged to keep prestine the entire day, of course mentioning no names MIKE WRIGHT. That night we all met for dinner in the hotel at 7.30pm and indulged in the hotel buffett and got an early night for the next hard day of grafting!
Question is: will we be able to fit all the cases and 21 bodies into the bus? Keep reading to find out!
