One challenge at a time

 It was an early start this morning, up at 0500, a quick breakfast, a last look at the bats flying from tree to tree and a last goodbye to the kids hanging around. James was driving us back and we loaded our cases into the minibus and headed out of Freda Carr for the last time, at least for now. We bumped down the potholed road and got onto the main road to jinja. We had time to stop at the Source of the Nile (the blue nile). The journey to Jinja passed quickly.. on a reasonably good tarmac road and chatting away. 3 hours passed and we were drawing up to the car park at the source of the Nile. We were greeted by Victor who persuaded us that we had enough time to do the 2 hour boat trip. My last chance to see a snake! I was told it was difficult to find them (no shit) but possible so fingers crossed. He did promise that we would see some Nile monitor lizards. These lizards are massive growing up to 7ft in length. Very intelligent animals and very powerful. Fingers crossed for those too!

 Today was our last full day here as our original flight had been cancelled so we were now flying out late friday night instead of Saturday. We woke up early and I for one felt a bit of sadness that it was our last day here. We had the staff teaching again today and weren't sure whether it would be the same set of staff as Monday or a different set. Which meant we weren't sure what our teaching plan for the day would be. We also wanted to hand out the rest of the gifts that we had brought... more hats and blankets, we had presents for Grace's children and some of the staff's children. We wanted to take some blankets and hats to the woman we had met in the mud huts near the hospital who had not long ago had a baby, who we had met earlier in the week... so much still to do... so little time. I also wanted to check on the cleft baby that had come in the other day and had not looked well. We headed back up to the classroom with no windows at the front of the hospital and se