Tuesday 27th August- Night out

I stayed in most of today, just going online and catching up on things that I have missed. The other half of the volunteers arrived in the afternoon. Once everyone arrived, Caz and Laura began handing out the shirts that we had all ordered, which would have a number of our choice on the back, and something written on the back, chosen by the other volunteers. I was number 15, and on my back was, 'Idiot Abroad'. Super.

In the evening, myself, Pav, Rachael and Ella headed off on our own into Kampala to try and find a film festival that was supposedly going on, while the rest of the volunteers headed to a restaurant. The 4 of us turned up at where the festival was supposed to be finding absolutely nothing there other than a lot of lorries and cabs. Pav then started going up to everyone who walked past asking them about the festival, but no one knew anything about it. We called a cab to take us to where the rest of the volunteers were at the restaurant and got something to eat. I had a spicy beef dish, which was really nice.

After the meal we headed to a night club for a few hours. At the club Dec and I got a big apple Shisha and started smoking it for an hour and a half with a load of Ugandan guys and some other volunteers. The drinks in Uganda are pretty cheap, a pint only costs roughly £1 and as a result a lot of the volunteers, and myself were pretty drunk. By midnight, there was only half a dozen of us left in the club as the rest had gone back to the hostel. When we had finished all the shisha, I headed off to get another and on my way over, I must of somehow angered some bloke as the next thing I knew I was being lifted into the air and was being yelled at by a couple of blokes, before being thrown to one side. I wasn't 100% sure what had just happened, but I didn't stay around to find out and went back to the bar to get another drink. Around this point I randomly hear a geordie voice blaring out over the sound system, I went up to the DJ booth to see Paige DJing and yelling random stuff in the microphones.

Towards 1am when the last of us were thinking of going back to the dorm, Me, Dec and Paige got a last drink. Immediately Dec and Paige started being severely ill, Paige especially so. It was quite difficult getting into the van to go back to the hostel because of it. We think that we had our drinks spiked due to how quick it happened after getting the drink. Eventually we made it back to the hostel and collapsed in our beds.