Back at work

The past few weeks I have been teaching at Budo again. I have been making photo stories with the Adobe Youth Voices Club and given lectures on HIV/AIDS to the S5s. On Monday the S1s (first year students) arrive and I will be filming them as they come to register and settle in to their new homes on campus. I will also be working in the girls' dormitories some evenings and will continue teaching science subjects. The beginning of term is as always a very busy time, but most of the students (apart from the S1s) have now settled in well after the holidays and seem ready to leap back into learning:) This is good, since it is a short term with a lot to cover in very little time.

There are plenty of exiting things going on, both during the day and in the evenings and I am looking forward to a busy and fun first term.

The staff room at Budo

Geoff reading about difficult people and how to deal with them...


On Friday I visited St. Joseph together with Charles to have a look at the new girls' dormitory. Unfortunately it was not finished in time for the beginning of term and the girls' are still sleeping outside of campus, but the headmaster Mr. Iga David hopes the girls will be able to move in next month. The dorm has room for up to a 100 students, but only 40 are expected this term. Hopefully more girls' will enroll next year.
The work in the dorm is done mainly by students from St. Joseph and their teachers, and it is a very good learning experience for the students.

Tiling around a shower in the girls' bathroom

Finishing the floor



Yesterday we went to an introduction party, which is kind of like an engagement/wedding party, where the groom officially asks the parents' if he can marry their daughter. An official church wedding usually takes place a few weeks or months after the introduction. This was the party for the daughter of one of our colleagues at St. Joseph. They are Acholi, from the north of Uganda, and the ceremony was a bit different from the Buganda ceremony. It was lots of fun, and lots and lots of singing and dancing..
The women were all very beautifully dressed (most of them in their traditional gomesi) as you can see from the pictures below:


The bride to be (in blue) and her friends waiting to be introduced to the guests






That's all for now
Hope everyone is well:)
Linn