Wrapping up this term

Thursday, April 10^th:
Today’s highlights:

Peter and Wilber made some serious headway on a kitchen garden in our backyard.

Dennis and I went in to the SPW office in Jinja to print a bunch of invitation letters for our AIDS day. We had a good run-around at TASO too, trying to sort out who to pay for the transport costs of their drama group.

I ran into several other international volunteers while doing some errands in Jinja. All there on business, I’m sure.

Lucy and I played soccer with ten 5-10 year olds on our field, and followed up the game with some raucous gymnastics and dancing. The kids were delighted.

That’s all.

Wednesday, April 16^th:
I felt pretty ill yesterday, and spent the whole day in bed with an upset stomach, headache, and mild fever. Today I’m feeling quite a bit better, despite having a seriously adverse reaction to dinner last night. Just a little woozy still.

The AIDS day is coming together. One of the priests suggested holding the event in the church hall instead of on the field, which will cut the cost of tents and a generator. We still have to make signs for the march and get the cooking sorted out, but I think it’s all going to be ready for Saturday.

Dennis and I are juuuuust about done teaching this term; we have one lesson at Mutai Primary left tomorrow. Next week Dance4Life is coming, and after that it’s going to be pretty uneventful around here until the vacation. We’re going to make a proposal to SPW to set up a youth resource corner this week, so that should give us something to work on while the kids are on break. As Dennis said, “If you stay around here without anything to do, you just get sick.” Agreed.

Thursday, April 17^th:
This term’s lessons are all wrapped up. Our lesson time at Mutai Primary was commandeered by a visiting NGO called Boys and Girls Brigade, so we did a quick recap of the things we had covered with them this term: HIV and AIDS, adolescence and puberty, and abstinence. In May we’ll start in with reproductive systems, and then probably get into some of the life skills-oriented material.

Dennis came down with malaria today but we’re getting some of the final preparations for Saturday sorted out. Tomorrow, we shop.

Tomorrow is Jason’s birthday! Sunday is Lucy’s birthday! Next Friday is Tom’s birthday! Lucy is rafting the Nile for her 19^th.

Lucy and I go in to Jinja tomorrow morning; the SPW office is having all of the international volunteers come in to register with their embassies. I’m not sure why we all have to converge on the computers at the office to do it, but we’re not exactly living for efficiency here.