Team 1 Takeover!

Good Evening Loyal Followers. Team 1 Here!

Apologies for the lack of action from our team, weve been busy being superheros around Uganda!
Sigh that is not the case, we simply havent had internet and for the fleeting moments that we did a facebook frenzy erupted which left the blog behind in the dust. But now that were back here in Kampala in the Backpackers hostel well try our best to fill in on all the adventures weve been having!

Our first week was in Kitatya Secondary school in Kayunga! We had an absolutly amazing week there working with the kids! Theres a primary school and a secondary school with us working in the latter. The kids range from 14-19 with us teaching all the classes. We split into groups of English and Science with about 2 peaople teching each class. The kids were incredible and especially liked it when we tried to prounouce their names. The singing of Molly Malone went down a great hit and for the rest of the week we were followed by an echoed chorus of "in dublins fair city, where the girls are so pretty" where it the drowned out into giggles!

The youngers kids in the primary school also came to visit us on a regular basis and the introduction of a camera invoked such crowds your writer lost her boot for 20minutes :D

Also duriong out school week Mr Paul Kilgallon and John Prasifka participated in a Pineapple eating contest! And so, with the music of "the eye of the tiger" in the background bother fearless contestants prepared to eat two whole pineapples each! After a twnty minute battle, Paul emerged victorious as the Pineapple King! John battled on bravely till the end and was crowned Pineapple Queen!

After our week of comfort in a nice comfy hotel we travellled to Kilembe (9 hours in a bus is just the funnest,............) where we met our guide for the buwata trail, his name was Bongoman.....i dare you to find a cooler individual!
We trekked for one day and then camped on a rather small ledge for the night where Luke became too close for comfort with some biting ants! The next morning we awoke to heavy rain which continued all the way home on our 3 hour hike! It was....refreshing?

Next we travlled to Queen Elizabeth National Park to the Ishasha river camp only to discover we didnt have enough water :D So the next morning we packed up and headed to the north side of the park, its a beautiful place, massive green trees and miles of Savannah! We arrived and took a boat trip around the two lakes, we saw crocodiles, buffalo, eagles, elephants, LOADS! It was fantastic! We tghen headed to our new camp where we found out that Hippos and any other animal that fancies the place can wander into, we walked home from the canteen the first night to discover 4 hippos just having a ponder round the campsite! That night the fearless leader Ricky encountered a beast attacking his tent, but fear not! He took swift action by hiding in his sleeping bag till it disapeared!
No your writer jokes, Fearless Ricky managed to kick the tent enough that the intruding creature made a swift exit.
The third day the whole team went on a safari before heading up to the nearby lodge and indulging themselves in a day at the leasuire centre! The pool went down a great hit and dinner an even bigger one with Luke managing to have an eat off with Foley(Luke won with ten courses!)

We then travelled to Lake Ruzungo which was beatiful! We situated our tents right on the edge of a massive lake and that night we ate mashed potato with baked beans to the chorus of hundreds of Frogs! We also visited a cave where Paul managed to both drop and retrieve his sunglasses from a waterfall!

Today we then had an early start to take another 9 hour drive back to Kampala! Were now safe and sound in the hostel and looking forward to Italian for dinner!
Were all having a great time over here and we cant wait to see how well cope on Mount Elgon!
See you all soon!

Team One OUT!

Keano!