Monday, August 10th

This morning I woke up with a sore back and a sad stomach. After breakfast of porridge and little morning workout my stomach decided to get rid of the porridge. So not fun, but am feeling better now. Today we have just been sitting around playing catch up for the last few days of slacking off on safari. It’s our last full week on the trip so we all have lots of stuff to get done.

Lucy and I have finally got some of our write-ups approved to be put up on the website so this morning Lucy and I have just been learning how to make the anthropology page and figure out what exactly we want to put up on the page. We are a bit tired today so we are both moving a bit slow.

After lunch, Lucy, Gaynor, Laurence, Kate, Katie, Sophia, Eileen and I “tried” to go back to Kasiisi Primary School to sit in on another XO laptop class. I say tried because about 20 minutes into our trip going up a steep dirt hill we heard a big snap and the truck jerked to a stop. It turns out we snapped an axel and so we quickly discovered we would not be making it to the school. We sat on the truck for about an hour while Steve (our driver) tried to figure out how to fix it. Luckily, Gaynor was able to get a hold of Uganda Wildlife Authority and they were nice enough to come by and pick up the volunteers and take us back to the camp. Laurence, Gaynor, and Steve stayed with the truck.

We arrived back to camp and broke the news to the rest of the group. Everyone was starting to freak out because the majority of their belongings were on the truck. However, about an hour or two later Nox (the truck) had returned!!! She is not fixed, but Steve managed to fix it enough to make it back to camp so he didn’t have to live on the side of the road with it. The place we broke down was next to some shady kids who were a bit cocky and kept aiming their slingshots at us, so luckily he got out of there.

For the rest of the evening before dinner Lucy and I worked on creating pages for the website to showcase our work we have done while we have been here. We have a few stuff posted already, just need to get some photos up with them now. Jess, the photographer, is extremely busy with everyone asking for shots so trying not to stress her out for more photos for our pages. If you go to www.primatehandshake.org/research you will see our exciting research.

After that, Jess, Katie, and I went up to the restaurant for dinner as we didn’t feel like eating pretty much the same thing again around the campfire. As usual it took over 2 hours to get our meals (everything goes at such a slow pace here) and even though Jess and I ordered the same thing mine came out after she had already eaten and paid (my good luck with customer service follows me everywhere).
We then all hung around the campfire for a bit and then hit the sack as we were all very tired as usual.