I am back in U.K.
Left Masindi at 9am and reached Entebbe around 1:30pm, picking up Dorothy Mugenyi and arriving at Goretti's Pizza restaurant on the bank of Lake Victoria for lunch before going to the airport. The traffic around Kampala was terrible despite it being National Women's Day and Godfrey Taxi knowing all the back roads! Very sad to say goodbye to all the staff at Courtview Hotel our home for the last month!
There was a short storm as we ate our pizza but there has been no good rain in the last three days - pray that The Rains really start so that the seeds people have already planted will prosper and come to fruition: if not Uganda will have a crisis as the last harvest was poor, around 4,000 refugees continue to cross into Uganda every day and the Aid Agencies continue to buy maize and beans to deliver in South Sudan thus putting up the price of food staples.
The flight to Addis went well but the five hours waiting for our connection was a drag. Once on board for Heathrow we were served second diner of rice and chicken and had a variety of the latest movies to choose from in Ethiopia Airlines most comfortable and modern Airbus
I only had three crises on the journey but it ended up with me losing my little "Africa Phone" at Addis Airport - I think it fell out of my pocket!
The Internet was very weak during my last few days in Masindi and I think my Tenth Blog all about visiting the Refugee Camp at Kyriandongo has not published. That visit was an eye opener ,especially our visit to the primary school in the camp - we went into a classroom where 140 pupils were crammed,studying!
It was a P4 year group and altogether there are around 700 pupils in Year 4, taught in 5 sets! The Refugee Camp holds around 75 thousand refugees ,mainly now from Sudan but also from Congo and still some Acholi 's from the war in Northern Uganda and Kikuyu's from Kenya's tribal problems during the Elections there four years ago.
On our penultimate day in Masindi, Sallie insisted Pat and I plus Missionary Janine go to Amuka Lodge in Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for lunch We did not see the rhinos but saw many bushbuck Thompson's Gazelles and loads of birds to and from the lodge. It was a great relaxation after rushing to get the girls knickers to a point whereTeachers Lucy and Scotia could finish them off with the girls and managing to get Francis Welder to hang the shutters in Olive's classroom block!!
Job done!
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