bujagali falls

hi all
sorry havent updated this for a while but i've been in Uganda for a week and before that it was a bit hectic with all the floods and stuff. we've now moved to a new village - alendu- and started work at hovic today biulding a kitchen to feed street kids. i also squashed 2 of my fingers in a truck the ohter day so sorry if my typing is really bad.
Uganda was fantastic though. so different to Kenya. its really tropical and lush and the villages dont seem as poor or badly kept as what i've seen here. we went to a plave called bujagali falls, which is the beginning of the nile. it was so awesome there. the place we stayed overlooked the nile and there were heaps of tourists there and new tour buses came in every night.

it was nice to get away and just be a tourist for a week. basically all poms or aussies there so that was cool too. we went whitewater rafting on the nile which was up to grade 5 rapids, (grade 6 is illegal for us) and went quadbiking through all the villages and just swam and chilled out. was pretty hard coming back to work today.

the weather in Kenya is still boiling hot but it rains so heavily every night so the mud is everywhere still. hopefully there'll be no more flooding though. we're now pretty much settled for the next 4 weeks and then its all over so hopefully there;ll be some more excitement to tell u about later.
we;re getting to know the street kids a little better now aswell and went on a night street walk to see where they all slept. we went down into the sewers with nobert ( a guy from hovic, where we;re working now) and saw where they all hide from the police. heaps of them are in jail at the moment though because the cops round them all up around xmas and new years and are quite brutal. but i think now its getting a little better....we've also been visitng some orphanages and today school started back so we're checking out the schools tomorrow to try and get involved with the english teaching and stuff.
but anyway thats all i can really think of at the moment. boring blog again sorry, will be in Kisumu alot more now though so hopefully can keep u updated on whats happening for the next couple of weeks
lots of love
liss xxxxx

Jinja, Uganda