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January 27th 2011
My East Africa tour has come to an end, I am still working tommorow I will be presenting my Manual Handling course tommorow for the first time, our flight back to the UK is actually at 00.45 saturday morning so officially tommorow night is my last night in Uganda but we will be checking out of the Sheraton tommorow morning and we are being taken out for dinner by the management team of Uganda ... its been great, I have learnt lots about Africa, I have met lots of lovely people, and I have seen the most bizzare things including todays motorbike ride of a family of 5 all on the motorbike which is fairly the norm here but with a chicken tied to the back - now thats different! people crushed into buses or Matato's ... read more
January 26th 2011
Not blogged for a couple of days, been busy with the new team who are of course a friendly bunch. We are setting up our new fake accident for our accident investigation on Thursday, I get to play the witness this time while Mike is again the evil boss, we have no victim this time so we are saying that he is in hospital and cannot be spoken to. The teams really enjoy the role play games and it really does help them to learn. Tonight Mike said "are you writing some blog? Jane says she is reading all about it" I then told him that yes I am and that I have mentioned it but he hasnt heard me! so I am sending him the link tonight so he can read it! We walked down ... read more
January 24th 2011
I dont have too much to say today, the weekend is over and I am back to work - getting ready to meet the new trainees and have met the lovely HR Manager Caroline and the Managing Director of the Uganda Branch, Vincent who is so enthusiastic about health and safety it is such a breath of fresh air :) lots of pineapple today yum I am so getting used to all this fruit and am very thankful that my desk is so close to the bathroom. Sad news today, a suicide bombing in Moscow's Domodedovo airport, 35 people have died. my thoughts go out to their families. have a lovely evening Lisa... read more
On four occassions I thought I was going to die today
Published: January 23rd 2011Africa » Uganda » Eastern Region » Jinja
January 23rd 2011
Off I went on my Jinja tour today which apparently included the source of the Nile however I had to pay my entrance fee seperately when I got there hmmmmm. not to worry I got refunded when I got back - I was sure of it! Jinja, the second largest town and industrial heart of Uganda is 80km from Kampala, here is found the source of the Nile! so Levi (my very friendly tour guide) and Silent Bob (my driver) took me on my trip to Jinja, first we headed over the Owen falls Dam which was my first ever glimpse of the Nile and it looked beautiful, I was really excited about visiting the source now. We drove through Jinja which looked like a mix of the wildwest and the Australian outback - it was ... read more
January 22nd 2011
So here I am in Uganda, the final leg of my East Africa tour. Arrival at the airport was the usual African mayhem, everyone was queuing at the something to declare aisle and no one was going through the nothing to declare aisle, I said to Mike well come on lets just go through. he said NO there is something not right here - lets just join the queue. Of course no one in the world queues as good as us brits do they? so everyone was pushing in and bumping each other - it was a nightmare. It turned out that they were making everyone get scanned before entry to the country due to the somali bombs in July 2010. Well that had been the biggest waste of 30 minutes that I would never get ... read more
January 21st 2011
Jambo I am going to talk about Esther today, a wonderful kind, generous, intelligent lady who works for the same company as me. Esther has lived in Nairobi all of her life and can only speak highly of it, she loves it and could not think of anywhere else she would rather live and I love her attitude about her own country. Esther works hard, she is a marketing assistant who works Monday - friday 9-5 like most of us and then she goes to college straight from work every single day until 8pm and then comes home and cooks for herself. At weekends she travels to Mombassa where he Husband lives as this is where he has a job, she leaves after college at 8pm and returns very early on a Monday morning. I said ... read more
January 20th 2011
Just had to add an extra quick blog in tonight ostrich, camel, ox, beef, chicken, crocodile, ox balls - thats what I had for dinner tonight - Mike wimped out on the ox balls and fed his balls to the stray cat http://www.tamarind.co.ke/restaurant.php ... read more
January 20th 2011
I met a new team today, these guys are to be the Nairobi Fire Wardens. - here is a picture of them Mike and I trained the team in what fire is, how it starts and how to put it out etc, they were a great bunch, very friendly and asked me alot about the UK economy. They were interested in wages and what the minimum wage was, when I explained this to them they thought WOW that is alot of money, but then I explained the cost of living, mortgages, Council tax, bills etc - they nearly fell off of their chairs. They said I would be rich if I lived in their country as many people can live on 1-2 US dollars a day. For the price of my Maisonette in Langley I could ... read more
January 19th 2011
Jambo (Hi) Have been to the Nairobi Office today, We have been organising the fire training for the staff and preparing the manual handling course for Uganda next week. I spied some construction workers today climbing all over scaffolding today without any harnesses, If they fell they would be gone... very dangerous. There are many street sellers here, they walk up and down the road with anything that they have to sell, in the middle of the road, it could be anything, newspapers, dresses, knickers, water, cd's, boomerangs - literally anything, - can you imagine people walking barefoot up the M4 selling all this stuff :) there would be even more mayhem than there currently is! Dad - Spoke to the hotel staff today and Hurlingham Estate still exists infact it is a very upmarket part ... read more
January 18th 2011
We had a stop off in the Dar Es Salaam office this morning to discuss their HSE requirements and then we headed to the airport... after being scanned at least 3 times and taken our shoes off god knows how many times we were finally through and ready to start our journey to Nairobi, Kenya. I have been looking forward to this bit, My dad lived here when he was a young boy and it is exciting to see where he lived albeit that it has more than likely changed alot in 50 odd years - yes dad you are an old man now. On the plane I sat next to a nice Indian/Tanzanian guy who decided to discuss with me his thoughts on the aircraft.... hmmmm he said.... that noise coming from the engine doesnt ... read more
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