Wednesday 17th/Thursday 18th July- travel

Wednesday 17^th/Thursday 18^th

After a tearful farewell at Gatwick airport from my family, I was on my own. The journey started off badly when I was stopped by security so they could go through my bag and they confiscated my prize possession…MY HP SAUCE!

An hour later I was on my first flight which would take me to Dubai. As soon as I sat down in my seat, one of the largest men I’ve ever seen sat down next to me. This guy was huge and required two seatbelts to strap him in. He was also too big for his seat and so I spent the 7/8 hour flight with him spilling over me.

I arrived in Dubai early Thursday morning and had to jog through the airport to get to my gate in time for my flight to Uganda. WOOP! Once at Uganda airport I met up with some other volunteers and we went to get our luggage and try to find our rep.

On the bus with some volunteers from the airport.

We then had a 2 hour bus ride to the first campsite where most of the other volunteers were already at hanging around by the pool. The pool had a massive diving board 10metres high which I was forced into doing. After we’d came back from the pool and back to the campsite we had dinner, which was a two hour wait for pizzas, the entertainment for those two hours being a documentary about The Saturdays, with a group of girls trying to educate me to the ‘musical talent’ of the band. Later we headed over to the local bar for some drinks, pool and table football. The locals at the bar were extremely friendly but highly competitive at the pool tables and table football.

After a few hours we went back to the campsite and attempted to sleep in the tents. However I and a few others were woken up by some off-putting sounds coming from a random backpacker’s tent, who had clearly taken a liking to a local woman.