Bye Bye Teacher Ali ...

The girls sing a beautiful song!

Professional Ugandan Dancers!

Oh dear!! trying to copy the professionals!!

Receiving gifts

Me and some of the kids

The 4 children my friends and I are sponsoring!

Saying Goodbye to Justine breaks my heart!

Jonathan loves sunglasses!

Nakato aged 5

Junior aged 3



Rhoda, aged 7



Playing in the street!

I can't believe how quickly 4 weeks can pass! It literally seems to have flown by. Again I had a wonderful leaving ceremony, this time shared with a welcoming ceremony for 2 other volunteers and also a celebration of African Childs day.  We had a whole afternoon of singing from the children, dancing from a professional dance troup !!! (and of course the not so professional volunteers got roped in to embarress themselves, which the children LOVED) and as is the Uganda way, lots of speeches.  I think in every single speech the 'wonderful' generator was mentioned and hearty and sincere thanks given to me (and everyone who helped pay for it) It truly has made such a difference to the school.  I have taken a video of a fantastic speech that 5 of the girls gave, and they said thank you for buying us the very good generator, it was hilarious and I wish i could upload it to the blog as you would all love to see it and it would make you laugh.  I will try to circulate it when I get home.

Obvioulsy I was in floods of tears again and when it came to my turn to give a speech the words just wouldn't come out and every time I opened my mouth all that came out were sobs!!! I really must get a grip on these tears !!! haha

As I am sure you have gathered I have, once more had the most amazing time in uganda and been thrilled to be part of CALM Africa again. I must say the people I met and have spend quite some time with now are some of the most wonderful, generous and hospitalble people I have ever met! I am very sad to leave them. :-(

I have now moved on and am in Windhoek Namibia, having arrived yesterday afternoon I am struck by the complete and utter contrast to Uganda, so far I have found Windhoek to be thouroughly modern, all the roads are tarmaced andin excellent condition, there seems to be little (obvious) poverty though I expect this will change when we get into the countryside! It is also very sort of dead looking (wish I was better with words) What I mean is that is is such a contrast to Uganda which is so green and lush, where the grown here is very dry and arid looking and its also the winter so whilst lovely during the day, its FREEZING at night, last night I was completely frozen.... and I was in a hotel room so I can't begin to imagine whats its going to be like in a tent!!! So this morning I have been out and bought thermal underwear to wear in bed, a termal sleeping bag liner and a very thick hoody to try to keep me warm in the evenings!!! Wish me luck !!! :-)

Anyway, off now to meet my fellow travellers and to get a good nights sleep before starting off on our trup tomorrow.

Bye for now

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