FrFRIDAY 26th February2026
We had a lovely "last dinner for Pat in In Masindi" last night with Sallie ,Janine and Robert. It was great sittin in the gardenith a temp of 28 only after a high of 34.2 with a beer and eating the nile perch bought in the market in the morning. We only found a tail end left as it had taken 45 minutes to get her pounds sterling changed into Uganda shillings.
We had had a hectic afternoon working with another 10 girls practising their skills on a needlecases before attempting the knickers next week. However before we got into P5 classroom there was a mini riot brewing in the P6 room so I went in to see what was happening with not a teacher in sight. There were over 60 puils crammed into a hot room with nothing to do!
Pat and I have been going in to school to teach between 4pm and 5pm and we now have 3 groups of 30 plus 6 girls left over. Undoubtedly more girls will arrive next week but physically I can't manage to teach more than 3 evening a week so I will teach those 6 a!one on Tues and add them to the 3 exso I will be teaching 3 groups of 12.
At 2 PM Pat and I will travel to Kampala and stay with my former pupil Annette.
I hope to buy a electric sewing machine for the Mothers Union smongstvother things like good bread and cheese for the hotel!
Doubt that I' ll get the Internet for a couple of days so until Monday..........
Friday, 26 February 2016
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
SEVENTH INSTALMENT part 3
WEDNEDAY 24th February
Can' get rid of the last photo so will try again a bit later
Here is Junior Ahumuza almost ready to go to Secondary school.
Can' get rid of the last photo so will try again a bit later
Here is Junior Ahumuza almost ready to go to Secondary school.SEVENTH part two
WEDNESDAY 24th February
I am doing this in stages as the Internet is SL slow and overloaded!
Today are the local elections and so the school is closed again, just for the day. So frustrating but there is a breeze as I write this in the garden of Sallie's hotel
Did I mention that she is now getting very old and she got cross and rushed around and fell a couple of days ago and made her nose bleed? I think prayers are needed.
Anyway I will try to catch up and now post a picture of Junior and his "requirements"
SEVENTH INSTALMENT 2016
TWWEDNESDAYDNESDAY 24th February
The Internet is very slow At the moment, so some of my pictures have got delayed and put into the wrong day's instalment! I will try to post a picture of the four pupils who achieved a Grade One pass at the Rhino Sanctuary.
The Internet is very slow At the moment, so some of my pictures have got delayed and put into the wrong day's instalment! I will try to post a picture of the four pupils who achieved a Grade One pass at the Rhino Sanctuary.
It was an amazing experience: at one point we were almost surrounded by FIVE enormous rhinos! The children were very good and well behaved and Kasujja Herbert an excellent guide.
Monday, 22 February 2016
SIXTH INSTALMENT 2016
MONDAY 22nd February 2016
Another crazy morning with nothing going to plan!
Junior Ahumuza arrived with hiscaunt as I was having breakfast with Pat and Robert so I gave them tea and chapatti and then wevrealised Juniors "Requirements were not labellescso I got out my sewing box and wrote his name on scraps of cloth and sewed them into his blanket,sheets,trousers shirts and towels! The atose the question of his metal box in which all his things will be stored: how to label that? So we went to the beauty salon and bought nail varnish and I stood in the street and wrote his name in bright pink on his box, basic and jerrycan!
Another crazy morning with nothing going to plan!
Junior Ahumuza arrived with hiscaunt as I was having breakfast with Pat and Robert so I gave them tea and chapatti and then wevrealised Juniors "Requirements were not labellescso I got out my sewing box and wrote his name on scraps of cloth and sewed them into his blanket,sheets,trousers shirts and towels! The atose the question of his metal box in which all his things will be stored: how to label that? So we went to the beauty salon and bought nail varnish and I stood in the street and wrote his name in bright pink on his box, basic and jerrycan!
Sunday, 21 February 2016
FIFTH INSTALMENT part 2
SUNDAY 21February.
I will try to post some pics of our trips to the Rhino Sanctuary
I will try to post some pics of our trips to the Rhino Sanctuary
Sorry! This is headteacher Mary Mukonyezi showing us her harvest of sweet potatoes.
We had breakfast of cassava chips andvhard boiled eggs after the church service.
FIFTH INSTALMENT
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 21st
The power went off as I was writing this blog earlier this afternoon, and I am not sure if it is lost.
So to recapulate, we had a very busy day yesterday, trying to cut out knickers but being constantly interrupted.The main issue was buying "The Requirements " for those two clever pupils,
Ismail and Junior.At the last moment, one of the most popular and good secondary schools in Hoima came up with a scholarship for Ismail, whose results in the Primary Leaving Exam was the second best in the county.Mandela Secondary has a list of "requirements" as long as your arm, being a boarding school and so Pat and I had to go to the bank so that both Ismail and Junior could get everything specified from toothpaste and a plate to shoes plus sandals,a mosquito net and of course uniform!Sallie had influenced the head teacher of Kitara Model school to give Junior a scholarship and his list of requirements was only a little shorter than Ismail's. Pat and I felt it a privilege to be able to help two poor boys get a good education. Ismail's father earns a living as a labourer and Junior lives with a bedridden grandmother. His aunt who worked as a gleaner in the sugar fields and is responsible for I don't know how many people, was involved in a terrible accident last year, when the sugar lorry she was travelling in ran into the swamp when it's brakes failed. 19 people were killed and over 45 badly injured - many falling on their razor sharp pangas. One arm is still in plaster. She is the main breadwinner.
We had given the ,4 pupils who all achieved a First Grade Pass in that P.L.E a treat on Friday, a treat by taking them to the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary.
The power went off as I was writing this blog earlier this afternoon, and I am not sure if it is lost.
So to recapulate, we had a very busy day yesterday, trying to cut out knickers but being constantly interrupted.The main issue was buying "The Requirements " for those two clever pupils,
Ismail and Junior.At the last moment, one of the most popular and good secondary schools in Hoima came up with a scholarship for Ismail, whose results in the Primary Leaving Exam was the second best in the county.Mandela Secondary has a list of "requirements" as long as your arm, being a boarding school and so Pat and I had to go to the bank so that both Ismail and Junior could get everything specified from toothpaste and a plate to shoes plus sandals,a mosquito net and of course uniform!Sallie had influenced the head teacher of Kitara Model school to give Junior a scholarship and his list of requirements was only a little shorter than Ismail's. Pat and I felt it a privilege to be able to help two poor boys get a good education. Ismail's father earns a living as a labourer and Junior lives with a bedridden grandmother. His aunt who worked as a gleaner in the sugar fields and is responsible for I don't know how many people, was involved in a terrible accident last year, when the sugar lorry she was travelling in ran into the swamp when it's brakes failed. 19 people were killed and over 45 badly injured - many falling on their razor sharp pangas. One arm is still in plaster. She is the main breadwinner.
We had given the ,4 pupils who all achieved a First Grade Pass in that P.L.E a treat on Friday, a treat by taking them to the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary.
This is picture of Rev. Elizabeth outside her new church at Katasenywa where Pat and I went to worship this morning and met Mary Mukonyezi who is noe the Headteacher ofKatasenywa Primary school
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