THIRTEENTH INSTALMENT 2016

SATURDAY MARCH 9th MARCH 2016

Seem to be having trouble with weak Internet!
Ooooh! And I have now discovered how to write this and see what I am writing by turning the Huddle upright!!!Am I stupid! But now there may not be so many mistakes!!!!!

This is a picture of Isabelle and me at the monument to Omukama Kabelega and Sir Samuel Baker who met in 1862 outside Masindi.

Actually posting on Thursday 10th March!

TWELVTH INSTALMENT 2016

TUESDAY MARCH  8th 2026
Wow! It is 1 PM and it is starting to rain with a vengeance! Apparently it rained substantially over night but I did not wake or hear it! I was again very tired after a busy day , preparing my lesson on Conservation for the P7s before we go to Murchison Falls Game Park next Tuesday. Then in the afternoon I went to Kabalega Primary to teach Sewing Group zC C only to find them all scattered. It took forever to get them all back off the playing field: everyone was hot tired and desperate for The Rains.
I also suggested to Chris ( Baz''s cricketing friend) that he organise a perfect system and give the kids some games equipment for that afternoon slot. Incidentally the school day begins at 8pm until 1pm with a break  at 11am, then an afternoon session from 2pm until 4pm then games until 5 and moreanother lesson until 6 PM.A much too long a day!
Anyway, Teacher Sarah was happy to hear that I will take Rogers to school on Thursday to help install the modem I have bought so the school can  access the Internet!
Sallie and I both had a fillet steak and a glass of red wine for dinner after we and Manager Robert had put the world and the hotel to rights! No wonder I slept through the rainstorm. I just The Rains won't disrupt the Murchison Trip!

This is a picture of my Mother's Union sewing Group

ELEVENTH INSTALMENT part two

SATURDAY March 5th 2016

Took a newly arrived young lady from Bristol around town. She is on a gap year two months teaching at Ikoba sec.school about ten miles away.Isobel is  getting accustomed to the African way of life but enjoys the change from a diet of beans and posho with meat once a week at Ikoba boarding school! we all enjoyed pizza last night at Sallie's  Courtview hotel!

The temp has now risen to 33.6C!

I m so happy that my TENTH INSTALMENT seems to be published!

It has been an interesting week what wit the mayoral elections etc. I am going to try and post a pic of the acting part of my "Rumpelstiltskin" lesson. At 4  half a dozen Mother's Union embers are coming for a lesson in knicker making.

I do not think my girls groups will finish theirs  before I leave: there are two more holidays next week - one is Womrn' s Day  and another the Election  of the DC3s.........

Hopefully my TENTH INSTALMENT

INSTALMENT
FRIDAY 4th March 2016
Yesterday I tried twice to post my news - and a lot has been happening but somehow they got lost!

TENTH INSTALMENT 2016

THURSSDAY MARCH 3rd 2016
Such a !ot is going on and I only have Two weeks left effectively. The temp yesterday was 35.2 and it was another holiday due to mayoral elections. s no school again yesterday!.However, Millie has given me permission to teach Sewing group A today at 2pm so that I can attend The Mothers Union  at 4pm when I will hand over the sewing machine - electric -  which Mama Joyce the Bishop's wife hadhad said would greatly help her Vulnerable girls group. This morning I dashed off to Alfred's village to try to understand why he is not succeeding academically. It may be that he is not academic but I am trying to find out what he really wants and why his teacher says he is not attentive in class. He has repeated P,6 class and still has sipuch poor results that Ksbalega Primary will not allow him to proceed to P7 class and do his Primary Leaving Exam.I have bee helping A lfredvwith shoes and books and pens ever since he came down from Packwach to join his brother, a room attendant at Sallie's Hotel.
We had an exciting night last night. There was a group of us eating supper in the cool of the garden when we heard shots which someone said was teargas. Apparently the results of the mayoral election were read out over the radio and said that the NRM Museveni's party candidate had won. Masindi is very lro FDC and so there protests : hence the tear gas  I have never before felt such a feeling for change- Museveni's hasnow ruled for 30 years after changing the constitution. Sallie went home by the back roads, having told Manager Robert to send the staff home early.I watched the  news headlines then rushed into the shower just as the generator went off ( we have not had power for days) but I had taken my torch with me so I was able to drymyself and get under my mosquito net by 9:45pm

ELEVENTH INSTALMENT 2016

SATURDAURDAY March 5th 2016
I really don't know where INSTALMENT 10 got to! I wrote it three times over 2 separate days but I can't find it so have forgotten what I wrote. I kept being interrupted and the Internet was weak.
 I think I will go backwards starting with yesterday Friday.
Overall the weather is staying extremely hot, reaching 35.5  one day .    Today at 9:30 it isam it is already 29.7 and the high yesterday Friday was 34.6
Yesterday morning I went to the bank,walking before it got too hot then I stopped off at the market to buy a couple of things with which to illustrate my lesson?n the afternoon. I found a huge Nile Perch there and bought a couple of kilos @ sh.14 which is £3.50! After lunch I climbed on to the back of a motorcycle taxi (boda boda) clutching the knickers already cut out for for Group B.
But first I joined teachers Harriet and Robinsh  to teach an English lesson to P4.  I found Robinsh marking books at the back of the class and Harriet readready to help. I found a group of 45 all squeezed into one classroom.I had simplified the story " Rumpelstiltskin " but had to explain miller especially.The kids loved the story  and I was going to let them write down a few key words already on the blackboard when Harriet asked if she could get them to act the story - I had stopped halfway so we only got up to the arrival of Rumpelstiltskin and the promise to hand over the firstborn chil! We had such fun and a took a couple of pics.
After that hour I went across the compound and gather ed  Group B from P5 for their sewing.Oh dear ,they are very slow (I have 12 only in each group)

NINTH INSTALMENT MARCH 1st 2016

Tuesday 1_St MARCH 201
Back in Masindi! Took Pat to Entebbe airport Sunday night and Baz and Daniel met at Heathrow. Now I am on my own teaching sewing erptc.
Temp  today 35C in Masindi and my mosquito bites are itching! think Annette's  mozzie net had holes in it.
Spent a great morning with Mama Joyce ,the Bishop's wife and her ladies English class at Wolyoba. Then to Ksbalega to teach the last 5 girls basic sewing before we embark on the knickers tomorrow
This needs charging so more tomorrow!