Hello! So have spent about a week at the school sharing a house with the AV volunteers for this year, think they were glad that andrew was there to give them advice on how to survive life in the school! Andrew has done some teaching and we have jazzed up one of the classrooms by stenciling some animals on the walls! After a very squashed bus ride we arrived in Mbale, a pleasant little town, and we treated ourselves to a nice hotel (and have just eaten ther bigg...

Hello All, Fay and I have just about come to the end of our seperate projects in Uganda so I am sat in an internet cafe in Jinja waiting for her to arrive on the minibus from Entebbe. My firsat week was spent mainly spent trying to get things going - often a frustrating experience - especially when the school has lost its only ladder and replacing it involves cutting down trees. Anyhow, I eventually got the main school building painted and it certainly bright...

Hello, Fay here! Have now spent one week in the zoo - really good experience. Have been cleaning up a lot of monkey poo! But also got to go in with the chimps and run around with one on my back (trying to teach him to be chimp like!). Also been riding around in the back of a trailer, feeding the buffalo and rhino and have spent many hours just observing the animals whilst drinking tea! Hello, Andrew here! At the school it took a long time for things to get goin...

We have now arrived in Kampala after action packed days in Jinja - quad biking in a monsoon and white water rafting about 9 rapids - including 4 grade 5's! Andrew's idea of fun, Fay's idea of hell (never again, getting stuck under the raft is a little scary.... but awesome experience!). Nice relaxing day using the swimming pool of the posh resort next door, now spending a day in Kampala for some Westernisation.

Hello everyone. Nearly 1 week gone already! After arriving in Nairobi we spent a day and a night catching up on sleep before rattling our way to Uganda on the Akamba 'Royal' bus arriving at dusk. We've spent 4 nights at backpackers hostel in Jinja and have visited the school where Andrew taught in his gap year. They were very pleased to see us - the library is now half completed so many thanks to those who donated money through me 3 years ago. Many of the cl...