Wednesday

Wednesday

Well now that today is over and I sit here to write my blog I realize I didn’t do much today. It was a very slack day for me. This morning Lucy and I kept dragging our feet to go do surveys so we only got about an hour of surveying done before noon. We got about ten in the hour so can’t complain.

For lunch, Peace surprised us and took us to her house in Entebbe. It was the house she grew up in and she had her family members cook us a Ugandan meal. It was very delicious and so nice to be in a house. Her family seems very well educated and well off. He dad is/ was a pilot and now a mechanical engineer and he mother is in charge of the entire countries AIDS campaign and promoting condoms. The house was very nice but there was not a lot of stuff on the shelves and wall (and the pictures on the walls were way higher than the western world would hang them).

After lunch when we arrived back at UWEC, Gaynor (expedition supervisor), Lucy, and Lisa had a meeting with the outreach coordinator in hopes we could get his help in meeting adjacent communities tomorrow so we could interview them on their views of UWEC and wildlife conservation in Uganda. Being that we only gave him a day to plan all of it I am still not exactly sure who and where the anthropology team is going to go tomorrow for interview. All I know it we are suppose to meet him by the UWEC truck at 9AM to head out. Hopefully the roads won’t be to bumpy for my neck in a small truck.

The rest of the day was pretty slack. I didn’t do much besides hang around camp and talk to other volunteers. Now that we are living in the bandas everyone has been hiding in them to work instead of sitting outside, so during the day there is a lot of separation. However, we all came together tonight to help make dinner (veggie burgers) from scratch. I must say as a non-vegetarian, they weren’t bad.
I just uploaded some photos so hopefully everyone can view them okay.

I have some new news about Kate, the journalist who we thought was the second person to come down with malaria, she does not have malaria but in fact has appendicitis!!! She was taken to the hospital today for another check when they discovered she had appendicitis. For the majority of the day they were trying to decide what to do and if the travel insurance would pay for her to get flown home and if she was even well enough to fly home. By dinner time tonight she had taken a turn for the worse and they were doing an emergency surgery tonight at a hospital in Kampala. Supposedly it is a decent hospital so hopefully she gets the best care that she can get. Her boyfriend, Ben, is also on the trip so he is staying by her side the entire time. All we can do now is hope for the best and that she can recover quickly and return home to England to be with her family.

Okay, I am going to post this and then try to post more pics.

Night!