Emily Stevens

After a long week of working I spent the weekend with other interns from ELI and headed for Jinja, which is about an hour west of Iganga. We left early Saturday morning and met up with the interns who are living in Jinja. From there we headed to the Nile River Explorers. There we signed up to go white water rafting down the Nile River. We had to drive about a half an hour to get to the launching place where we got onto the rafts. Before we took off we were all briefed on how to get back into the raft if it flipped and how to flip the raft back over once we were through the rapids. Instead of telling us they had us do it ourselves which meant they flipped the raft on ... read more

Everywhere I have gone people here have greeted saying, "Welcome to Uganda!" All the children yell "Mzungu, Mzungu!" (meaning white person) when I walk by and they wave and get so excited when you wave back. Some follow us for a bit and just keep waving until they can't see you anymore. The streets of Uganda are always busy with cars driving by, pi-chi pi-chis (motorcycles) weaving in and out of the cars, and people walking or riding bikes on the side of the street. Thursday after I got into Entebee, I was picked up, along with another volunteer who is staying with the same host family as me, and brought to Iganga where we met out host family. There is our host mom, Heron, and host dad, Idi. They have three kids, Kiza, who ... read more