Penultimate week- back next month.

March 28th Monday
We introduced the topic of autism to the students, but unfortunately we have not had all the students attending due to illness. We were tired from the weekend and sat and watched the 3rd DVD of Pirates of the Caribbean and fell in to bed.
Tuesday 29th March
Lecturing continued with Autism and there was some lively discussion and Lorraine had some great DVD material to illustrate some of the features. All good stuff!
We have become very settled into our daily routines, washing (self and clothes in buckets) cooking, ironing, sweeping and mopping all of which gets us very hot and sweaty! We have a lovely taxi driver called Solomon who greets us cheerfully and is on time every morning. He’s very patient when we go shopping for groceries and helps us carry it up the 3 flights of stairs. He’s much safer than a boda boda!
Last night it rained and did it rain! We had thunder and lightning and this time Julie didn’t sleep through it. Just when we thought that we had got the flat sorted Lorraine woke to some drops of water on her face during the thunderstorm. It was only a small leak which lasted about an hour until the rain eased. She had to keep moving around the bed to find a dry spot. We’ve moved the bed today as there might be more rain tonight.
We do hear thunder storms and we have solved the problem of why we can’t hear mosquitos. We realised, with some hilarity, that we are suffering from high frequency deafness! We told Helen (Course Coordinator) and she was thought this was hilarious and couldn’t wait to tell her husband Steve.
This weekend we are off on another adventure as if life isn’t varied enough. We are going to Murchison Falls in the North West with a back packing group and we will be sleeping in a tent! More washing in a bucket? Marrise (SLT at Mulago) kindly arranged this for us and told them we are not the usual back packers so let’s hope they will be a bit kind to us. The trip includes a visit to see the Falls, a boat ride on the Victoria Nile, and the chance to see lions, giraffes, rhinos etc. And we will tell you how we got on next week.
Wednesday 30th March
Fortunately the rain had eased by 8.30 as we went to work. The day’s plan introducing taking a case history for a child with Autism and we were fortunate in the afternoon to have a Ugandan parent come and talk to us about having a child with a disability. It was very interesting to have her describe the experience of health and education for children with disabilities in Uganda.
We managed a bit of shopping today in a African crafts shop called Banana Leaf which was a treat as there are very few places to buy anything.