Jess Lawrence

JessLawrence

Jess Lawrence

I am currently in Uganda working with Friends in Service International (www.frisi.org). I am mainly teaching English in a primary school, but will, hopefully, be travelling around different parts of Uganda as well.



Africa » Uganda » Eastern Region » Jinja January 25th 2012

I am finally here. I think in most senses, it took a while for me to settle into life here, it is so very different to England. I have been here ten days and a couple of hours as I am writing this, but it feels so much longer maybe because things are very different here. I am staying in a village called Namengo which is about fifteen minutes walk outside Lugazi,but at the pace English people walk probably around 5 minutes. Ugandans walk very slowly. No one is in a rush here. I am working in a Nursery school in a village called Kikawula, which is also not very far from Lugazi. The school is very basic and they have hardly any resources. However, the children are so keen to learn, a little girl called ... read more




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