Amy almost died of Malaria…….. So a worried Nicola jumps in a Special Hire and whisks Amy away to hospital. Here, - wearing no Make-up, having not showered in an amount of days I am not willing to disclose, and wearing practically our pyjamas – we were taken “care” of by a young good-looking Canadian doctor (I say good looking, what I mean is that we haven’t seen any talent in 4 weeks). Worriedly waiting in the waiting room, I’m secretly cursing Amy for me being here looking like this and the fated test results return and……
It turns out that Amy just had a bad case of the runs.
Saturday 9th July was a day that will go down in history in Africa, and myself and Amy felt particularly honoured to be so close to the festivities. A special day, enjoyed by many……
BULA children’s home had CHICKEN FOR DINNER!!! At around 9 in the morning the cooking began with the arrival of around 9 chickens on the back of a bicycle. REAL. ALIVE. CHICKENS. From here the boys proceeded to pluck them ALIVE. Before chopping their heads off…… how humane! Some of the other kids that live here (but are in boarding school) visited, so there were around 40 of us in the house…..HECTIC! We had some feast, at like 4pm, having not ate anything all day, we didn’t care how anything was killed, WE WERE HUNGRY! So Saturday 9th was a very special day……
Awh yeah and Sudan became two countries , no big deal.
The feast continued on Sunday, including battering 2 piñatas, and laughing watching the kids scramble for the sweets (secretly wishing we could be down there grabbing what we could). For the rest of the evening (after the other kids returned to boarding school) the home kids were bouncing off the walls. FUN TIMES.
On Tuesday we got to travel to the Equator, you know that imaginary line that halves the WORLD, that only goes through a meager 10 countries, Yeah we were there! It’s really just a couple of stone rings marking North and South and a load of stalls in the middle of nowhere. But a seriously small world that we met a group of people from Armagh/Cork! We were afraid we would have no transport back to Kampala, a 2 hour drive away, but alas first Matatu that passed wasn’t full!!!! HALLELUJAH!
Now entering our last week, Amy and I have already compiled a list of what indulgences we will be feasting on in the car ride home………………………x
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