To bad, i got sick on the second day of real work.
But now i can give you some more detailed stories about our time here in Uganda!

The flight was really good, i guess i have never had one better than this. It's so much fun to be on a plane with 9 other people u know (or maybe we didn't know each other that well). We killed some time watching movies, tv programmes and listening to music. Also the food and drinks were good, and plentifully! Maybe this food wasn't the best preparations for Uganda.
We arrived very late, and 2 taxi's took us back to ICU. We had some needed rest :)
The next day sander showed us the best parts of Kampala, we had some nice dinner afterwards. Most people decided to go for the pepper steak. I'm really sorry is didn't go for that as well.. it was soo tasty. That night we went to the Ndere dance/music show at 6PM (Which started at 7PM according to Jane).
It was really fun, even after the power losses (we are used to it now). I made a lot of nice pictures, to bad i can't share them all with u guys. we finished the evening with a multi cultural dance! Off course (as dutch as we are) we had to start a polonaise.. and everybody joined in :D.

Monday.. it was a bit of a shocking start.
Hope was driving us to KYC. She started of rushing over the bad roads close to KYC (we were thinking she was joking..). Then she rammed a wall, almost had an accident with a car and 2 boda's.. to finish with a real accident with a boda. The traffic officer told her to continue her way.. so she decided to give some gas and drove over the boda!
Jane couldn't take it anymore and decided to stop here.. we got a different driver called Eddy. He is really cool :)
But still manages to scare us from time to time with the chaos on the Uganda roads.
Finally reaching KYC we saw a little heaven in the middle of the slums. It was really nice!
We met the youngsters, played volleyball with them and did a little workshop and introduction.
After a lot of hours we went back to ICU.

Tuesday.. for me a really bad day.
We were going to paint KYC.. it was all very basic and the room wasn't ventilated that well. So after 2 hours of painting, Jolien and i felt a bit sick.
After some rest, pineapple and melon we felt better. We asked a researcher of KYC to show us around in the slums. So him, me, Jolien and Ivo went into the slums (we didn't bring any water... stupid!).
We saw so many awful things, also the air was really filthy and smelled very bad. It really impressed me, even shocked me.
After coming back after a very difficult route I was feeling really sick. So sick that I had to puke during the ride back. (Sander was wondering if I had hit a boda doing it, too bad I didn't).
Coming back to ICU I went straight to bed, sleeping the rest of the day.

 
Wednesday.. I stayed home sick.

Me, Mirjam and Ivo stayed home sick.. so we had to find some fun at ICU.
The others went on home visits, they really enjoyed them!
That evening I was feeling really down and everybody was noticing.. I went to bed early to get some good sleep.

Thursday.. let's try it again!

This morning I was feeling great again.. I had eaten some food and was ready for the day.
We were going to sell clothes at KYC and it was supposed to be really busy! When we arrived at KYC there were actually people waiting for us! So we unpacked all of the clothes really fast and started doing business. We made a decent amount of money out of it.
After the market sale we had some lunch (I had bread, because I really dislike the local foods). For the afternoon we had planned to play games with the local children. A lot of them had turned up! It was really fun :), but I was feeling bad again..

Today Hedda and Naomi also got there hairs done! The result is really nice :).

Friday.. home again.

I wasn't feeling that great again.. so I am staying home today.

- short interruption while speaking with Sander-

He convinced me to stay, so today I will hang around with him, his wife Sarah and the 2 kids.
I will join him at his plot in Mukono. Tomorrow we planned to have a pick nick there. So I will stay there for the night.
But first we are going to take the kids from school, shop for the pick nick and drive there.

See you guys later!
Tim