a great day…

Thursday 23rd February

It’s 5:45am and still pitch black… It’s a little chilly, the skies are clear and together with a few of the other volunteers I’m ready for a morning hike.

Naturally there’s very little light pollution here so the stars are totally amazing! Thousands of them and so clear… we stop for a quick break, switch off our torches and look up. The Milky Way is also visible and we see several shooting stars – cannot reveal my wishes of course but none of them have come true yet! (one might have been related to something with bacon!!)

After an hour and twenty minutes we get to the top of Heaven hill – legs hurting slightly but we are rewarded with the most wonderful sunrise… What a privilege!

And what a great start to the day… followed by excellent roast potatoes for lunch… cake and homemade banana wine in the afternoon (it’s one of the other volunteers’ birthday)… the banana wine tastes like it looks! 😳

An evening in the pub concluded a really lovely day!

So why was it so good and why have I not had more of those this time here in Uganda? And I realised that I only have myself to blame. At times I have been too caught up in how things have been different to last time instead of focusing on getting new experiences here. Annoyed that I have not managed to focus more on the positives from the situation. Would like to think that I have learnt from it, though…

I will be sad to leave Uganda, though – maybe because I don’t think I’ll return here but also because I really believe that the community here needs help and I so wanted to do more…