I have so much to talk about so I'll just start with the basics.
I have been in Uganda for more than three weeks now and have so much to tell so I will just start with the basics.
I landed at Entebbe Airport on the 3rd of August in the morning and I spent the first night in the outskirts of Kampala at a hotel next to the ICYE Uganda/Uganda Volunteers for Peace (UVP) office. On the next day UVP took me and another three ICYE volunteers from Iceland, Austria and Ecuador respectively to the Lweza Training and Conference Centre which is just off Entebbe Highway Road (the highway linking Entebbe Airport to Kampala which is said to be the best in Uganda). At Lweza we met seven ICYE volunteers from Germany and all of us had our on-arrival training camp there with the UVP staff until the 9th of August. At this date we returned to the UVP office and our respective host families came to take us to our host projects (all of them are located in different parts of the country). Mine brought me to Namayumba which is where I will be living until the end of my placement in early February 2012.
Namayumba is a village located 50km away from Kampala (the capital) on Hoima Road, the highway leading to the western (and slightly northern) part of Uganda, and it is around 240km away from the borders with the Democratic Republic of Congo. I live with a host family in a large house which is next to the village's parish and only a few meters away from the secondary school of Namayumba which is where my project is based at. I am currently teaching French to local people and have three classes of three students each. My placement officially begins on Monday the 5th of September, which is when the new school year begins, and I will be teaching French to secondary students, possibly Senior 2 and Senior 3 (to be confirmed).
