End of Term?

On July 29th we celebrated our 36th wedding anniversary! Who would have thought we would be celebrating 35 and 36 in Uganda!! We spent the evening having a lovely meal at the Japanese restaurant just over the road.

This is my 20 minute walk to get the matatu down to college each day. The water in the distance is Lake Victoria.








Sometimes I meet cows being taken for grazing on pieces of waste ground. They are also seen on the busy Ggaba Road some mornings!

These are the little 'shops' just down the lane.








We buy fruit and vegetables here and now do not pay 'Muzungu' prices. They charge us reasonable prices. A big hand of about 20 bananas are usually about 65p and a huge pineapple about the same!

Term dates said the end of term was August the 22nd. Exams were to be the week before but on Friday (1st Aug.) I was teaching the last lesson when the Dean of Students came to say exams had been postponed until the beginning of next term and the students were all to go home this weekend! A bit sudden! The reason I am told is that the college has run out of money and so cannot afford to buy any more posho and beans to feed the students for the final three weeks of term. Tutors have not been paid for two months and a notice went up on the staffroom notice board to inform us that our salaries had not been credited to our accounts and we would be paid 'when the college had the money'! We all said we wondered if that would be Christmas! I gather that this is not an unusual state of affairs and schools often close early becuase they cannot feed their boarders. I feel really sorry for the tutors as they have rent and school fees to pay for their own children. We are all hopeful that the large numbers of in-service teachers arriving on 25th August will pay sufficient fees to pay us all.