Day 4

By Eli Lockwood

Today we woke up for our first day at the schools at Kamuzinda, located 1 hour on from Masaka. We also had the painful joy of the morning playlist which went on for a tedious 2 hours. Then we started breakfast which was cornflakes with milk in bags, egg rolex, hot chocolate and bananas. However the best thing was the passionfruit. The same size as tennis balls – everyone loved it. Until we got to the small ones that were left which I tried to rip open and it worked at first but when I did the second one it exploded all over poor Dylan.
Then we went on a tour where our travel group was lead by the amazing Christopher who is currently doing his A Levels which Kamuzinda amazingly provide. On the tour we saw the dormitories the classrooms and the farm school. In all the classrooms we entered we were greeted by singing and chanting with teachers happily pausing their lessons to introduce us. Near the end of the tour we were shown the food that was grown on the school premises. We got to try raw sugar cane which as we ate felt like straight up sugar liquid giving us crazy sugar hits. As well as this we had our second encounter with the passionfruit this time picked by Christopher which was even better than the first. During the tour we looked out for what needed to be improved or fixed. And we came up with, the bridge crossing the river, the A Level boys toilet block and the Farm buildings. After this eventful tour we came back to Mama Millies lunch consisting of potatoes, beans in a mystery sauce, pickled cabbage, and pineapple. This was delicious all over. We then started our first job where our travel group fixed up a fireplace for personal leisure. This was really dusty and left us with tanned mud lines on our socks. Then the job of sorting donations began where my suitcases took minimal time to empty but then we had to sort all the donations on the grass. In this process Steve got stuck in a mountain of girls clothes where Leon and I fought the treacherous dangers of bags of baby clothes to free him from disappearing entirely. The we started the water pumping where Albert and I burned our forearms pumping for 1/2 an hour. When this laborious task was complete we went for the first football match began, RLS vs Uganda. The match was against us as over 100 kids flocked the pitch versus our 15 but we started strong taking the lead multiple times leading 3-1. Unfortunately after Steve missed hundreds of sitters it went downhill with a penalty to Uganda excellently converted followed by a beautiful shot. 3-3 quickly became 4-4 when Wilson saved a shot with a mid air dive of the line. Unfortunately we went all the way to 6 men versus 200 which led to us losing 5-4 but with a goal under a quarter of the size our effort was valiant. When this was complete we took an excellent group photo with all of our footballing friends. Then we came up to our rooms dripping with sweat and this leads us to now with our sore feet sat in our rooms waiting for what I know will be an excellent dinner.

Thank you for reading,

Eli

P.S If Caroline McGraine is reading this Eoin says love you.