Imperial Resort Beach Hotel Entebbe

... charge the defibrillator and give each other a rest from the compressions. <br><br>I don&#8217;t think anyone even realized we had landed &#8211; and we continued for 2 hours on the ground&#8230;..but sadly to no avail. His organs had all given up. He had been struggling for too long before we got there. <br><br>The drama hadn&#8217;t finished quite then. It is apparently really complicated if someone dies in the actual airport. We might have been sent back to Uganda&#8230;.So we had ...

... name is Achileos Kijjambu, and at the age of 16 his parents and siblings were killed in a Matatu crash (those are the overcrowded mini-van taxis). For the first two years afterwards he lived on his own, finding food wherever possible and growing cash crops. Then he got a job as a waiter in a zero-star hotel in Kampala, where he has been working for the past three years. He works 18 hours per day for 4 days of the week, and 9 ...

... now. He was cute as a button!<br><br>When we got to the gate of the school, the kids were forming two lines from the gate to the entrance of the school building. They were clapping and singing: 'Welcome, Teacher Bigiti!&#8217; And two girls were escorting her to the entrance while throwing rose petals in front of her. I mean, she is indeed referred to as the Danish Queen here in Eden School and she surely is treated as such. Drønning Margrethe may get flowers ...

... 8220;If my father does not pay my school fees, I cannot go to school.&#8221;<br><br>As I began, I will withhold judgment for a few weeks<br><br>This afternoon, we worked on prep for next week, and will be heading to the &#8220;Entebbe Tuesday Market&#8221; shortly.<br><br>If you would like to follow on the official JGI blog, what we are up to the link is as follows. I promise it won&#8217;t contain rants on my personal insight.<br><br>http://voyageafricajuly 2009team.blogspot.com/

... Nile River (which flows North from Uganda). There are over 30 different tribes all with their own language and culture and the people that we met along the way were so open, friendly and genuinely kind. Although we had the misconception that Uganda was not a very safe place to travel we were told that it&#8217;s actually now one of the safest places to travel in all of East Africa. After spending a day in the big city of Kampala we made our way to Bwindi ...

... were a little moth-eaten and the exhibition on the traditional musical instruments was also a bit worse-for-wear. There was a science and technology room but it was a bit of a joke - a very small mining "exhibition" and a model T Ford sitting in the middle of the room! Overall though it was pretty interesting and was good for passing a morning. Becky and I visited Owino Market in the afternoon. It's the ...

... youngest told me that he was 22 and loved George Bush. That's all he had to say for me to try and pawn him off on someone else. They did buy drinks so that was cool. Rochelle met a guy, who we never found out his name. Instead we called him "The Russian." He apparently worked in diamonds. This was a good catch b/c at the end of the night we thought taking a boda was a bad idea. So the Russian said, "I have a car." He walks up to this car, hits the side, and ...