The Nile!

The festival went fantastic; the students loved the interactive lessons. We are going to have one this week too. On Saturday I went to Jinja, It is the city where the Nile starts. Mostly we went for souvenir shopping but there were also a few sites. We were supposed to go to a monkey reserve but time would not allow for that. The taxi ride on the way there was the most ridiculous taxi I have ridden so far. By the way, a taxi in Uganda isn’t like the ones in America. They look kind of like a Volkswagen bus but they are Toyotas. One time when I took a taxi they fit 21 people and a chicken in it. So anyways the taxi on the way to Jinja stalled halfway there. After like 10 min the driver finally got the taxi started again and we continued to Jinja going slower than I could have walked for about 20 min. Finally there was a downhill so the taxi just cruised down it and from then we were cruising at a normal speed, except at every uphill the taxi jerked like crazy. Once we got to Jinja we decided to see the source of the Nile, which was pretty anticlimactic but it was still fun cuz technically we went into Tanzania while on Lake Victoria.

This is a picture of me at a bonfire that one of the primary schools had for us.