Our journey to Uganda

Everyone arrived at the airport in plenty of time for the first leg of our long haul flight to Entebbe. We had to rejig the books around in the bags as we were slightly over our weight limit but we have managed to get all of the donated books and resources out to Kampala. After a few tearful farewells to parents we set off on our whistle stop tour of various airports - first stop Amsterdam, then our major journey to Nairobi and finally onto Entebbe. all students and luggage arrived safe and well! We were picked up by our driver where we had to have the luggage in a separate van as we had too much to fit in one. The bus drove us through Entebbe on what, surprisingly was a main road, despite it not being properly tarmacked, to Kampala. This gave us a huge insight into the working and living conditions in these big cities - street sellers, shops on the road, piles of bananas and pineapples for sale next to the traffic, the shops were basis shacks open onto the street and the traffic! roundabouts are a free for all! people on motorbikes cutting in between the vans and lorries that obey no speed limit or laws of the road! Cattle roaming around the side roads along with the goats and the chickens. Huge contrasts between the gated brick houses and the shacks and slum areas that surround the railway line. At one point all traffic was stopped for the President and his motorcade along with military officers with guns to pass us by!As we came nearer into Kampala we found ourselves skirting round Lake Victoria. The roads became more like dirt tracks as we neared our destination. The hotel is situated on the  top of a hill up a winding dirt track with views over the lake, Miss Kirk has made sure we will not be roughing it during our stay.

Tomorrow is our first day visiting Bright Future School. We are all quite shocked by the scenes we have seen so far - so very different from home. Tomorrow is what we have all been waiting for - meeting the staff and students of the school and beginning the next chapter of our twinning venture.