Monday March 23, Day 1: Travel Day
We were off! Patricia: the Roots and Shoots co-ordinator from Congo, Tracy: the Educational Coordinator from Uganda, the driver and us. Day one was a seven hour travel day in which we experienced Ugandan construction, high volume traffic and intense heat, but the journey was pleasurable. We travelled from the northern hemisphere to the southern one and stood on the equator. Upon arrival in Bushenyi, there were a few setbacks in accommodation until we were invited to spend the week in the Bishop’s house! This house was reserved for visits from the Bishop and luckily he was out of town. We definitely got a taste of African living: one hour of electricity from a generator per day, and 2 containers of hot water with a bucket to bath in!
At the conference center, we unloaded all the materials and welcomed the participants as they began to arrive. The venue had boarding facilities for the Ugandan teachers, a kitchen and a big room for us to deliver the workshop. We ate all of our meals at the venue and all of them (yes all) consisted of posho (cassava flour and water), millet (a different flour with water), rice, ground-nut sauce, stewed animal, and a slice of pineapple. Ann laughed when she found out that Alissa and Sue had also been eating the green spinach-like vegetable known as pigweed, but referred to by the locals as doo-do!
We were very tired by the end of the day and excited to begin teaching on Tuesday.
We were off! Patricia: the Roots and Shoots co-ordinator from Congo, Tracy: the Educational Coordinator from Uganda, the driver and us. Day one was a seven hour travel day in which we experienced Ugandan construction, high volume traffic and intense heat, but the journey was pleasurable. We travelled from the northern hemisphere to the southern one and stood on the equator. Upon arrival in Bushenyi, there were a few setbacks in accommodation until we were invited to spend the week in the Bishop’s house! This house was reserved for visits from the Bishop and luckily he was out of town. We definitely got a taste of African living: one hour of electricity from a generator per day, and 2 containers of hot water with a bucket to bath in!
At the conference center, we unloaded all the materials and welcomed the participants as they began to arrive. The venue had boarding facilities for the Ugandan teachers, a kitchen and a big room for us to deliver the workshop. We ate all of our meals at the venue and all of them (yes all) consisted of posho (cassava flour and water), millet (a different flour with water), rice, ground-nut sauce, stewed animal, and a slice of pineapple. Ann laughed when she found out that Alissa and Sue had also been eating the green spinach-like vegetable known as pigweed, but referred to by the locals as doo-do!
We were very tired by the end of the day and excited to begin teaching on Tuesday.
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