Week 28 (28 Jan – 3 Feb 2007)
In an attempt to develop the blog entries to make them shorter and less repetitive I’ve been trying to be creative and failed so far. Did I say that I’m trying to be less repetitive? We’ve settled back into the school routine, such as it is without students. The main issue is the heat – hitting 39°C on Sunday and over 38°C for three of the other four days at the time of writing. This is mid-afternoon but the rest of the time it’s in the upper 20’s and has been around 24°C at 8am and 9pm. I think we’re getting used to it and it’s better to be distracted by doing something gentle than thinking how hot it is. Or going to sleep.
We’ve had three excursions this week – church at Kuluva Hospital, a visit from Cathi Asiki, her sister from the UK and her four children for lunch and our weekly trip to town. Some more furniture and bits have arrived and I’ve spent a day or so fitting four posts to our bed to raise the mosquito net. Now we can read in bed without getting the book caught in the net. It took all day because I have now discovered how hard hardwood is. Very hard. And I missed my electric drill for the pilot holes. I’ve still some shelves to put into the wardrobe and few other bits.
The start of term has been delayed from 5th Feb to 19th Feb due to a meningitis outbreak in the West Nile area. Immunisation programmes have started but it’s not advisable to have hoards of children packed into relatively small classrooms. This gives us an extra two weeks to plan especially if the staff turn up for work next week. Some of the teachers have applied for government school jobs which means that they can be posted anywhere in the country. So far, one is going to east Uganda even though he is from Arua. Several others are waiting to hear so there could be several changes and short notice.
Andrea has begun to teach crocheting to some of the girls who work for our neighbours and I have given my first chess lesson to two of the teachers. I need to read the book to find out what the second lesson is! Otherwise, we’re doing lesson planning and preparation as well as Bible study notes in simple English for the students to use.
PS I've just found out the Six Nations Rugby scores - great for Ireland, except that I missed it!!!
We’ve had three excursions this week – church at Kuluva Hospital, a visit from Cathi Asiki, her sister from the UK and her four children for lunch and our weekly trip to town. Some more furniture and bits have arrived and I’ve spent a day or so fitting four posts to our bed to raise the mosquito net. Now we can read in bed without getting the book caught in the net. It took all day because I have now discovered how hard hardwood is. Very hard. And I missed my electric drill for the pilot holes. I’ve still some shelves to put into the wardrobe and few other bits.
The start of term has been delayed from 5th Feb to 19th Feb due to a meningitis outbreak in the West Nile area. Immunisation programmes have started but it’s not advisable to have hoards of children packed into relatively small classrooms. This gives us an extra two weeks to plan especially if the staff turn up for work next week. Some of the teachers have applied for government school jobs which means that they can be posted anywhere in the country. So far, one is going to east Uganda even though he is from Arua. Several others are waiting to hear so there could be several changes and short notice.
Andrea has begun to teach crocheting to some of the girls who work for our neighbours and I have given my first chess lesson to two of the teachers. I need to read the book to find out what the second lesson is! Otherwise, we’re doing lesson planning and preparation as well as Bible study notes in simple English for the students to use.
PS I've just found out the Six Nations Rugby scores - great for Ireland, except that I missed it!!!
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