The trip was, thankfully uneventful. We followed Terry McEchern's sage advice and spent the lst night in Entebbe. In the morning we took a private hire to the Chez Johnson hotel, booked in and followed Mr. Okoth's directions to the St, Henry School;. Olivia has "our class." The walk from Chez Johnson to St. Henry takes about 20 minutes. A good part is through Namuwongo (very familiar to us,now). Our classroom is quite bare and shabby. Put aside all pictures you may have of private Catholic school.... Hardly any books or toys.... The best,most anticipated,happiest moments came from meeting with children we taught last year. They swarmed and milled. Truly amazing. And when asked to, broke into "Miss Mary Mack". They remembered the words better than we do. We ate with the other teachers posh (gruel) and beans and looked forward to the Italian Grocery Store. On our way there we met up with Ronah and exchanged news. The ice cream was wonderful. Now we have to prepare lessons for tomorrow. Bob and Judy
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