Wooh what a weekend, but I'll leave the drama until the end and start from Monday..

On Sunday, Vic, Caitlin and myself had matoke and meat in Janes house, it was lovely especially as we'd only gone over to chat :)
We had actually gone round to Janes to tell her that Bulenga wasn't getting volunteers next year and that I had changed my flight due to illness.
Vic was sat opposite Jane and I was in the chair next to Jane, getting quite emotional. It was hard telling Jane, as for myself it was facing facts of leaving and knowing Jane wouldn't get help from volunteers next year. I was quitely crying as Vic proceeded to talk, unlike Madam Jane.. Jane just sat there resting on her hand, like a statue. Jane didn't say anything, it was so sad. I know that was Janes way of reacting to something negative, not showing emotion but being on the recieving end was hard and I walked out in floods of tears.
We decided to forget about it and although Monday was awkard between us we're back to normal now.
It was a difficult start to the week with Jane and the other teachers being rude and distant towards us. I think it because they aren't getting volunteers next year. So for the rest of the week we didn't teach as classes have been having their mid-term exams so we haven't been teaching but helping Jane marking the English exams.

Caitlin left her village at the weekend and is now staying with us in Bulenga until we leave. She's volunteering in Kampala International Hospital, as she'd like to be a nurse, so this is a great experience for her.
Concidering Caitlin is only 18, completly unexperienced in this field, so far Caitlin has learnt to take blood from patients, dress burn wounds, give injections and has been going on home and school visits with Dr Dan, checking children and adults for HIV/Aids and giving talks. It's incredible!

I remember Vic saying on the way home from school "I'm really looking foward to a quite, girly night in" This was soon to change..
In the evening I was outside eating sugarcane and making a huge mess, so instead of sweeping just my area of mess, I though whilst I was at it I'd bascially sweep the whole compound. Soon after I had a painful headache so went to lie down in bed. I took some ibrofen and sat up in bed. Next thing Caitlin came in and I was hunched over. Caitlin was trying to talk to me and I just didn't have the energy to speak, my hands were all clammy and cold and moving body parts was a slow process, as they felt limp. Vic got Jane and decided I needed to go to The Surgery.
I couldn't go on a boda, matatous didn't go that way and Patrick wasn't around. I could see how scared everyone was as we had the transport but luckily Patricks wife drove down to the house half an hour later. Jane and Vic picked me up and I managed to get to the door before my legs giving way and collapsing.
When we finally arrived at The Surgery I was feeling better but was still in my 'zombie' state. I got out the car, managed a few steps with Caitlin and Vic and again collapsed. So I have Vic holding my arms, 2 security guards holding my legs and Caitlin hoisting up my pj bottoms.
It was so frustrating hearing and seeing everything going on and thinking in my mind and not being able to speak it.
I stayed overnight in The Surgery with the doctors making an appointment for a brain scan in the morning. At that point I was really scared!
I had the CT scan and it's been put down low blood pressure and the nerve in my neck sending muscular spasms into the left side of my head. Nothing serious, we all sighed a sigh of relief, escpecially as infection on the brain kept coming up in the doctors conversations!
We stayed in Kampala for the weekend, incase it happened again and this is where Sunday comes in..

I'm sure you've already, as it's on the BBC but on Sunday as the final whistle was blown for the World Cup Final, 3 bombs went off in Kampala, with the death toll currently at 74.
Soph rang Caitlin panicking as they'd been evacuated from Iguanas which was near the attack and she told us not to leave the hotel. At the time we didn't know why there had been bombing and were panicking so much as our accomodation was in central Kampala, next to Garden City, the biggest shopping mall in Uganda! Maybe you could say it was good timing but for us it was defiantly bad timing, as not even 10 minutes after Sophie calling, we heard this car, tyres screeching and looking out the window we could see smoke from behind one of the buildings. Was it a chimmney, fire, bomb? The hour was tense but we soon realised that if an attack was to of happened it would of done by now. Our heart rates lowered only until we heard guns being fired! It was a tense night but I'm just so glad we were together as a three!
Everyone who are with Project Trust are fine and are either back in their villages or doing as the Ugandan Army are saying and staying away from busy places for these next few days, as they have been rumours of un-exploded bombs being found.
The bombings were apparently because of Somalian rebels with this being said on the BBC website; In Mogadishu, a militant commander said he was "happy" with the attacks in Uganda. However, Sheik Yusuf Sheik Issa refused to confirm or deny that al-Shabab was responsible. He told the Associated Press news agency: "Uganda is one of our enemies. Whatever makes them cry, makes us happy. May Allah's anger be upon those who are against us."
Just crazy! You hear of attacks all over the world but to be here, to have people back home waking up to this news on Radio1, it's too much!

Today is the 2 week count down until I'm boarding the plane back to England.
Can't believe it, I remember when it was only our 2nd week here and we were just getting over the riots that took place!

All my love from Uganda x

Emma x x x