Parent Teachers Meetings!

This week we had the opportunity to spend time with the children in their schools. The week began with the Magwa and St. Nicholas visitation days, which was a great opportunity for the children to meet Auntie Assinance, our new home carer. The St. Nicholas boys are making excellent progress in their new school and are loving the new environment. Although Hassan is slightly lacking in confidence with the challenge of a new school year, he is improving lots and his teachers are very encouraging. After some small run-ins with the school authorities over his rather extravagant fashion sense, Ronald is now settling in very well also!

Down the Magwa end of town, the children are all flourishing. We spent the day having our first ever experiences of parent-teacher meetings, waiting nervously in front of the teachers desk as they updated us on the childrens progress. Some of the children are struggling slightly to keep up with their classmates but the Magwa teachers are helping them catch up with extra tutition in the afternoons and their grades are continuing to improve. Despite some inevitable school yard spats, the school is getting great reviews from the children and they all seem to be enjoying themselves immensely.

Later in the week was the Magwa sports day. The interns were shocked, horrified (and at some points rather bored) to discover that the day involved a series of five kilometer races. Emma represented the SALVE household in the two kilometer race and did us all very proud coming an impressive second.

This week also marked one of the most important day on the Ugandan calendar: International Women's Day! The day is a national holiday here where the women get a well-deserved opportunity to put their feet up while the men take over the work for a change! After getting some paperwork out of the way early in the day, the interns celebrated the day with an afternoon by the pool, enjoying the beautiful views over the Nile.

Thats all for now folks!!

Laura and Janet