NINETEENTH INSTALMENT 2016

WEDNESDAY MARCH 16 2016

Yesterday was amazing!
I took 38 pupils, 5teachers, 1 head teacher,1chief Inspector of schools and 5 drivers of the minibuses to Murchison Falls National Park!
Yes ,a few hiccups : ended getting cash from ATM at 5:30am, time slipped but we got to the Uganda Wildlife River launch only half an hour late, UWA charged me as a foreigner so I had to borrow from Chief Inspector Sam, a baboon stole some of our bananas giving us s fright at Red Chilli Camp and one minibus broke down almost at the ferry but we squeezed everyone into 3 minibuses instead of 5  so one could go back and tow the broken one on to the 7,pm ferry back across The Nile. We reached school at 8 PM in the dark extremely sweaty, hot and thirsty. There had been no water in Masindi so I had to buy bottles of water for us all and I,'d had to make do with a wash using half a bottle of drinking water on Tuesday morning at 5 am before dressing for the trip!
Everyone loved the trip and thanked me over and over again. The highlight was seeing 2 leopards in 2 trees - couldn't get pics but so amazing to leopard in daylight! There were loads of giraffes and elephants and buffalo plus many many tint dsinty Oribi and Thompson's Gazelles plus bushbucks and waterbuck and Jackson's Hartebeeste!
On the river we saw hippos and crocs and loads of the most beautiful birds! paradise!
Must get on with preparing for tomorrow's workshop for the teachers of the Handicapped.
Only s couple of days left now in Masindi.