A Day in the Life - Uganda
“With the sun having risen, the cock crowing, and the neighbourhood stirring, by 7:30 there was no alternative but to get up and start the day. One slice of bread and jam later I would walk the ten minutes to Kyabirwa primary School to the sound of “ow are you?” I’d spend my morning teaching English, History and games to classes of 75-220 children! Marking books at break and helping some pupils with their reading.
A mug of sweet coconut tea and roasted cassava set us on until lunctime. If I was not teaching in the afternoon I’d collect the lunch of Chapatis, egg, and salad from Monica and catch a boda boda to the building site. Painting, digging, and the endless moving of rocks would fill the afternoons as we worked under the inquisitive eyes of the yellow uniformed children.
At the end of the day a quick swim in the cool, refreshing river Nile would refresh all after a meal of beans, cabbage and potatoes there’d be a drink down at the local campsite by the Nile and then bed to the accompaniment of bats.”
Rebecca Wraight, Madteacher
Jinja, Uganda
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