Blogs from Jinja, Eastern Region, Uganda, Africa - page 7

With yesterday having been such a great success for all involved, a lot of planning along with some lengthy discussions went into ensuring today’s kwik cricket competition followed in the same positive footsteps. The day began in a more eventful way than previous mornings, starting with a meeting in the dining area consisting of delegates from different aid supplying organisations/charities and members of the Ugandan army in relation to the devastating landslide. News came alongside this of today’s main man, Richard and his antics during the night, consisting of heavy drinking with an old friend of his and Uganda’s funniest man John Mayeku, as a result of which Richard had got no sleep at all after returning from Mbale’s finest watering holes at 5am. With both John and Richard in a pretty hilarious state we ... read more

Sunday 28th February 2010 The day started with a 7.30 meet in the restaurant, for breakfast and a meeting about the day’s events. Looking around the table you could see that everybody was itching with excitement to start the coaching. The coaching was meant to start at 9.00 but in Africa it seems nothing ever happens on time, so we started at nearly 10.00. The coaching was held nearby to the hotel at Jinja S.S cricket ground, it was only a 10 minute walk. When we arrived we were unsure of the number of children that would be participating, it later turned out to be an amazing seventy six. The children were from local primary schools - Budondo, Buyala St Pauls, Kivabuke and Buwagi. These four schools are part of the Soft Power Education (SPE) scheme, ... read more

Jan 20  Day 5 Today we had our white waterrafing excursion. I was bummed about not wearig contacts but not worth messing with my eyes yet. Can't wait for LASIK. Any way we had a great breaky then headed off to have another with the rafting group. Then we had a short drive to the river.  Our boat was the 2 Ozzie girls 2 guys we meet last night, 2 uk chicks and myelsf. Our raft guide Nathan was very good and through. I was very impressed. We entered the Nile at a very mellow slow moving area so we were able to do all the drills and pratice flipping and everythig.  It was the most hand on teaching I have ever seen. Once we went through all of that it as game on. First rapid ... read more

Jan 18  Day 3 So today we are headed to Uganda to a town called Jinja It shouldn't be to long of a drive a d hopefully the border crossing goes well. Well me made it fine the border crossing was pretty smooth. We got VIP accesss to pass all the commuter trucks. Kathy said they sometimes wait up to 2 weeks to cross the border because of paper work. We went through pretty smoothly. We did have to wait for Patrick our driver to get the stamp for the truck but it was because he had to hop on a taxi to go to town to find the offical to get the stamp, pretty ridiclous. But after that it was smooth sailing. Well as smooth as you can be on bumpy African roads. Haha Maydeena ... read more

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