Hey everyone So this Saturday I went with some of my Hospital mates to Sipi Falls. Its 45 min drive outside of Mbale heading towards Kapchorwa, at the base of Mt. Elgon. The trip was sensational. We walked for over 4 hours touring the area and looking at the 3 falls. The first and largest water fall can be seen from the Lodge where started from. We got some pictures at the lodge over-looking the cliffs towards the water fall. It was massive. We headed over to the second falls. It was truly amazing. There was a cave behind the water [View Full Entry]

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Ancient <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=uganda&ie=UTF8&ll=1.515936,32.497559&spn=6.388463,9.206543&z=6">Buganda</a> (muwawa) offered what is part of the building blocks for modern day Uganda. A typical medieval kingdom whose power eclipsed neighbour’s existence, was at the epicenter of the region bordered, Present Tanzania and Lake Victoria to the south, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunyoro">Bunyoro kingdom</a> to the west, Lake Kioga to the North and Busoga Kingdom to the west. Present day Buganda has 20 <a href=" [View Full Entry]

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Ancient Buganda (muwawa) offered what is part of the building blocks for modern day Uganda. A typical medieval kingdom whose power eclipsed neighbour’s existence, was at the epicenter of the region bordered, Present Tanzania and Lake Victoria to the south, Bunyoro kingdom to the west, Lake Kioga to the North and Busoga Kingdom to the west. Present day Buganda has 20 counties The Origins are not clear and myths 1,2,3 4 handed down by ancestors are just one of the few mediums from which we derive its inner workings. Younger generations believe the civilization has existed for a thous [View Full Entry]

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Ancient Buganda (muwawa) offered what is part of the building blocks for modern day Uganda. A typical medieval kingdom whose power eclipsed neighbour’s existence, was at the epicenter of the region bordered, Present Tanzania and Lake Victoria to the south, Bunyoro kingdom to the west, Lake Kioga to the North and Busoga Kingdom to the west. Present day Buganda has 20 counties The Origins are not clear and myths 1,2,3 4 handed down by ancestors are just one of the few mediums from which we derive its inner workings. Younger generations believe the civilization has existed for a thous [View Full Entry]

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Back in April, I made my first trip to Jinja (east of Kampala) to see the source of the Nile River. I went with my students on a geography field trip and had so much fun! Of course, the source of the Nile is Lake Victoria- which is unusual since a lake is normally not considered the source of a river. The source is normally the major river that feeds into the lake. But for Lake Victoria, there is no major river that feeds into it. So the lake itself is considered the source. We took a 2 hour bus [View Full Entry]

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Today was our last real day in Uganda. We got up fairly early to go to church with the Choir kids. We were a bit late due to taxi problems, but all in all, it was good to be in church. It’s a fairly large church on the outskirts of Kampala. The church Choir led us in times of worship before transitioning into the message. The sound wasn’t great, and there were errors in the PowerPoint, which was hard to read, but God was in the house. It was so much fun getting to worship with Choir children again, though I [View Full Entry]

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Wedding day was today. Wow. It was supposed to start at 11, so some people wanted to leave the house at 9. Harriet told us that it was “impossible” for the wedding to begin before 11:30, so we needn’t rush. I’m glad we didn’t. We got pulled over on the way to the church, making us later, and we got there (some people a bit stressed) at almost 11:30 and no one was there yet. The wedding started around 11:55, which, we’re told, is early. The ceremony was nice. Prossy’s dad did the honors and took some time to preach before [View Full Entry]

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It’s not all work, work, work here, of course! I’ve treated myself to two amazing trips while I’ve been here, the first to go Gorilla tracking in Bwindi, over in the west of the country, and the second, last weekend, up to Murchison Falls, around six hours north-west of Kampala. The Afro-alpine landscape of Bwindi (sometimes known by the wonderfully romantic title ‘Bwindi Impenetrable Forest’) is very different from Bujagali, and although the distance is little more than from London to Manchester, even in a private vehicle the journey took us fifteen (yes, rea [View Full Entry]

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In my conversations with people at home, I remembered once again that lots of people don’t know as much about geography as we’d like to. I was one of them, too, before I joined the Choir. Maybe this will help a little. UGANDA: The capital city is Kampala and official language is English, though there are 40 or so dialects of native languages. The most common of which is Luganda. There was a civil war of sorts in 1984 to overthrow the dictator, Idi Amin (see: The Last King of Scotland.) Yowrei Museveni has been in office as the president since [View Full Entry]

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Well as I have explained to my friend Larry, unlike him I am not big on traveling. To be honest traveling to me is like looking at and appreciating different shades of grass. Its like looking at the grass on either side of the fence. Anyway, thus I went off to arrange a visit to Kampala, the capital city in Uganda. Now there was actually some cool things to see, but not what you might go all the way to Uganda to see. On our way to Kampala I heard these sirens blaring and this little black SUV come racing past [View Full Entry]

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