As we write this, we are sitting in a Matatu (trying best to ignore the live chickens under our seats), listening to "Send Me On My Way" by Rusted Root as we begin the long journey home. This morning we bade a fond farewell to the green rolling hills of Kyaka and to its friendly staff. We are sad to leave; part of us wishes we could stay longer, the other part cannot wait for a real bathroom with running HOT water and something other than rice and beans for bre...

For some reason we are unable to access our research blog website from out here, so here is our first blog post... Kate It's Friday morning and we have officially been in Uganda for a week! Everything is a bit slower today after a "stress management" session that lasted until 4am involving beers, dancing, a fabulous yellow fishing hat, and goat. Lots of goat. To describe this week is quite a hard task-it's a cross between jumping into a geography textbook and ...

Can't believe I've been heere a week already, it's gone by so quickly! It's really difficult for me to translate what it's like over here... but I shall do my best! My journey over to the camp, it is far to say, was a bit of an adventure in itself. Denis collected me from my hotel at 9am and drove me to Kampala (the capital city). Kampala is a bustling city choked by cars and motorcycles darting in and out of the traffic. In Kampala we went to the Prime Mini...