Day 13 Monday 26th

Quite a day. A full on 'do everything' type of day. This morning we had a meeting with Musa, our long time friend and Safari driver. It was good to talk about so many things and catch up with his news. We had to make arrangements and speak about Musa's wife who will be helping us set up a hair salon at Malangata. After the set up she will be our first instructor to begin courses there. Hers will be a course in hairstyling. 

At 10.30 we had our 2nd meeting of the day. I had arranged a meeting with the leaders at Bula Children's Home with a government advisor on the child care expectations within Uganda. The meeting went as well as I expected and we are left with no illusions at all about what is expected and what the home must do now to remain as a Children's Home. At the end of the meeting Angie arrived   Angie is an American volunteer who has offered 4 months free of charge to take over from me when I leave next week. She will work with Bula to help them with the transitions and also to work at Malangata with continuing the work that we have been doing there. Angie will shadow us for the next 5 days to gather as much info as possible. She is a personable assured young woman and I will be 

We then visited Malangata to give a tour to Angie and also to pay Zub his first payment for the bore hole. Today he corrected me. He is not digging a bore hole - a bore hole is obviously a hole that is bored. He is digging a well. His team are digging a well by hand down to a depth approx. of 80ft to the water table. It will then be capped and a pump will be put in place at ground level. It is important, he was telling me, for it to be at least  6ft in diameter or at the depths that they will be digging there would be no air to breath. It is so far at a depth of 8ft after 2 days. It is going to be a long job. 

After making several payments we returned to Kampala where I had the unenviable task of driving in the dark. Driving in the day is one experience never to forget but driving at night in Kampala is definitely an experience to forget. No street lights, no lights on some vehicles, people walking everywhere, BodaBodas weaving in and out of the traffic in a huge  hurry to go nowhere, every person with a dark skin and in dark clothing, continued mayhem on the road. I have decided today that I will not drive again at night here. I will do everything to avoid it.