This week has been pretty hectic, well I prefer to use the word hectic then referring to me being stressed out..
The school still hadn't found a new P1 teacher (a new teacher has been interviewed and will be starting Monday!) so I was put in charge. P1 are an extremly difficult class and none of the other teachers wanted to help out, so I was teaching every subject to my best ability although the lack of Lugandan certainly wasn't helping the childrens learning.
I don't want to be shouting at children but the usual simple method of finger on lip for quite just doesn't work so "BE QUITE!!!" has to be done!
Luckily mid week Anna (who was the first volunteer at Bulenga) came to school. She's doing some work for her University course and as she was in Uganda, a visit to Bulenga was needed. She took some lessons off me and she said even after an hour she was exhausted.
It's just not simple with P1 as it is with other classes. All I want them to do is get their pencils out but they've either eaten them, stolen someone elses or dropped it down the long drop. They don't get on well with eachother, therefore effecting the teacher as by the time you've wrote something on the blackboard and then turned back around someone is crying after being hit or their book has been ripped. Nightmare!
And then today, P1 is the only classroom with a padlock and just my luck the key had been misplaced, so we had all of P1 with P2 but then we realised all of P2 books were also in the P1 classroom. Let me say it again, nightmare! Suprisingly the day went pretty fast, unlike the week but the whole school came together after lunch for teacher vs. pupils in football and netball. For me, it was a great release and end to a tiring week.
I was so pink after the 80minute football game, the children ran me round in circles. For such small children, they have skill! After the football, I went and played netball for 30 minutes and again I was useless ha!
The children had empty jerrycans beating them, singing and cheering everyone one. The atmosphere was fantastic. It was great seeing all the teachers letting loose, wearing sports gear and just enjoying theirselves. I'm going to speak to the headmaster, it's certainly something that needs to be continued even if it is only once a month.

So apart from Anna and her boyfriend David being over, nothing new has happened. Anna is lovely and although Vic and me can talk to other volunteers about problems or my parents who have experienced life here, it's really good being able to talk to someone who has experienced Bulenga. She can sympathise with us and the conversations are really helpful. They're out here for 3 weeks, coming and going and are concreting the floors, which is brilliant, as the amount of times Vic and me have taken a step back and forgotten the huge 'crater' by the blackboard.

I've come into Backpackers this Friday to say goodbye to Ben and Danny, 2 great guys I've met who are leaving tomorrow and it's a nice chance to unwind.
Hopefully I'm heading to Sanyu tomorrow and the lunch with Vic and back to project for the weekend.

I'm hoping to upload some photos soon but my memory card has a virus on it, so I can't open my camera file on any computer. It's being de-bugged as we speak. I've got some good shots of blue chickens! Yep, it's very clever but strange when you walk past orange, blue and even purple chicks but it's to try and stop the vultures from eating them :)

A huge rain storm this afternoon, the rainy season is back! :(

Lots of Love from Uganda x x x