We had a late start the next morning and intially were quite happy with the breakfast of pineapple and other fruit but were then asked how we wanted our eggs and were given crepe-like pancakes, sausage, egg and toast.
The owner of the hostel kindly did the next run also and drove us to Taibah International School where camp was being held, just over half way to Kampala. This gave us our first look at Uganda in daylight...
I was surprised by the stark differences we saw in the view over such a relatively short distance. Large sturdy block buildings were flanked either side by lean-to's and hung tarps creating further stalls and shops in addition to those in the main building. Homes made of plastered walls and walled gardens with tended to grass sat right next to shacks made of mis-matched pieces of wood or tin with nothing but dirt for a floor, and the mansion like estates sat on the hills behind both of these.
We were greeted at camp by Noeline, the camp director, and the other Ugandan leaders started arriving soon after. We were issued with brand new mosquito nets... they offered to wash them so that the DEET wasn't so strong but, along with the amount of DEET-filled insect repellent we were spraying on ourselves each day at sunset, we were happy to take the full-strength ones. We were sleeping in one of the dormitories with several other Ugandan leaders but without any children, so we each got one bunk bed over which we hung our nets after putting both mattresses on the bottom. We were anxious to see our "flushing-squat" toilets... they weren't so bad. :)
We spent the afternooon with the other leaders, getting ready for the week ahead and getting know each other.
Lunch - boiled rice, baked beans and a chunk of meat (beef?)
Dinner - rice noodles, baked beans, boiled potato, minced beef
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