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  • A couple of days ago I met one of my Ugandan colleagues for lunch at a local restaurant. It was a slightly more upper-class local restaurant, you [...]

    The significance of ‘shouting me lunch’

    05/08/2017
  • ‘No human being should have to spend time in that place’ Our local community recently attempted to kick-out a businessman from our [...]

    Theft, opportunity, deception and scandal – part 3

    31/07/2017
  • Innocent by name… There’s a boy named Innocent who lives just across the way from us, around 13 years old. He can barely read, has been [...]

    Theft, opportunity, deception and scandal – part 2

    22/07/2017
  • Today I begin a short series (four posts) on community life living in Uganda. There are four short stories I want to share with you. I will begin [...]

    Theft, opportunity, deception and scandal

    12/07/2017
  • My incredible colleague, Teacher Catherine, travelled out of town to the local government primary teacher’s college this afternoon to [...]

    Getting the priorities right – slashing?

    11/07/2017
  • There has been a few rumours that Dan is ‘under the thumb’ and possibly that I wear the pants in our relationship. Publicly, I find [...]

    Growing and changing…

    08/07/2017
  • I wanted to post this a month ago, but the internet only allowed me to upload this short little clip now. Last month I was the ‘chief [...]

    ‘Chief guest’ for the bikers

    26/06/2017
  • Last year we had four ‘control’ government schools where we were testing the children’s reading throughout the year (at the end [...]

    Working with an outlier…

    23/06/2017
  • I have one main boda who regularly takes me to schools and any trips I need on a motorbike. He is also known around the community as the guy to [...]

    Lashes for stealing meat and looking shabby

    21/06/2017
  • These words came out of my mouth today when talking to a deputy head teacher at a really low-performing government school in town: You do what [...]

    Do what ‘they’ want when ‘they’ are watching…

    20/06/2017

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