Now at Mweya.

Have seen all host of wild creatures – including an irate elephant blocking the road!

Boat trip later.

Ate fresh fish from the lake last night!

We are now in Ishasha viewing the elephants, baboons, etc.

Hippos and hyenas were in the camp last night!

All is well.

We are all filthy from the dust but are loving it.

(sorry for the time delay on these posts)

Another great day.  Saw the Chickens at KHS and then visited Lake Bunyonyi (the second deepest lake in the world).  Swam to the bottow of it! (only Mr Galbraith and only in his dream).  Flora has bought some local material!

Out.

All very well!

Visited the nursery next to KHS – a great experience.

Delivered Football boots to KHS.  They were gratefully received.  Thank you very much to all the kind parents and students at The Warriner for donating them.

Looking forward to another day at KHS tomorrow!

All alive.
Tents up.
Local food sampled.
Seen monkeys at campsite.
All tired but looking forward to dinner and sleeping.
Guides and van seem sturdy!
J Galbraith.

Flora's brilliant bespoke Uganda shoes

The team of seven students + Mr Galbraith have begun their journey to Uganda!

The team at The Warriner minibus! (+1 Joe to be met at Heathrow)

After a wrong turn out of The Warriner (!) they are safely checked in at Heathrow and about to Depart to Entebbe, via Nairobi.

Bye!

Lessons 1, 2 & 3 are now available; aimed at exploring preconceptions they are useful for KS 2 and 3.  Get your students involved in learning about Uganda through our expedition!  They are here (or click ‘teachers’ above)…

Meet Lizzie, Georgie and Flora:

Kirsty:

Jo:

Stefan:

Richard Dowden’s recent book ‘AFRICA. Altered States, Ordinary Miracles’ is well worth reading. It begins like this:

‘I have watched the sun set, shrunken and mean, over a cold, drab London street and stood outside a mud hut next morning on a Kenyan hillside and seen it rise in glory over the East African plains. Africa is close. Few go there. Africa has a reputation: poverty, disease, war. But when outsiders go they are often suprised by Africa’s welcome, entranced rather than frightened…’

Africa Altered States Ordinary Miracles

Two teachers from The Warriner School recently visited KHS Uganda. I was one of them and on return I have read Richard Dowden’s ‘Africa’. Michael Buerk’s review says this: ‘At last – a book about Africa the way it is, not the way the idealistic aid workers, lofty international bureaucrats, or doom-laden day-trip journalists think it is. A continent bursting with life… A place too big and varied for easy generalisations, full of paradoxes…’

I hope that our expedition will not slip into these ‘easy generalisations’ but will help us to begin to understand more of this stunning country set in the heart of this mysterious continent. Soon, teaching materials will be available from this site. They are designed to begin exploring preconceptions about Africa. Aimed at both primary and secondary teachers, we hope they will be useful and will help your students to engage with our expedition and so understand more of the real, complex, Uganda.