Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

Well I doubt there will be bears present, but next week, I am going on safari! We had planned to do it a bit later on, but the office is closed next week for 3 days while an organisation called ‘Farming God’s Way’, come and teach Jenga and people from the local community all about Biblical farming methods. They have done extensive work across Africa with some very impressive results. If you want to read up on their work, it’s www.farming-gods-way.org. So while everyone is learning planet & people-friendly farming methods, us non-farming folk are heading off to see some African animals in the wild! We will stay a night in Kampala first, as the tour leaves from there in the morning. We return back to Kampala 3 days later to chill out for a day or two, then head back to Mbale. Can’t wait!

Also, the rains have arrived – hip hip hooray! Everything looks greener already and I need to begin training Korah not to jump up on people when she has very muddy paws. Learnt that one the hard way. It’s cooled down a bit here but is still pretty warm, just not sticky and hot, which I’m very happy about. 

If you’ve been Facebook stalking me, then you would have seen that we climbed the Mbale part of Mount Elgon on Easter Monday which was a steep walk but well worth it. There was a part where you have to climb a “ladder” up a sheer rock wall which was a lot of fun but the whole time I was thinking ‘my mum would die if she could see me now’. The ladder is really a big bunch of sticks/logs/branches all shoved into and on top of each other in a vague upwards fashion. Some of the branches creak quite loudly when you put your weight on them, which is never reassuring! I wish I had taken a photo of it…I think one of the boys might have, so I will see if I can get a copy to show you all. The whole walk took about 5 hours and it started raining on the way back down which made for a slippery time. Almost stacked it a couple of times but luckily our guide Martin was there to catch falling foreigners! This was the view from the top:

Tomorrow, the whole Jenga team are watching the Royal Wedding thanks to all the British volunteers here. I wonder what style of dress Miss Middleton will opt for?

I guess we will all know soon enough – until next time….

Louise :)