Thursday 22nd July!! Ellie’s 22nd Birthday!! Definitely a birthday to remember!!
My day started with a treat of pancakes for breakfast! They were lovely; I was allowed to jump the queue for seconds. I opened my cards while we all sat on our little stools outside the truck, all the volunteers had got me a card that they had all signed, its definitely a keeper!
We started our work for the day; Greg the education leader was nice and let us all have a lazy morning. We finished off some our work and then planned our lesson that we’ll be teaching at Kasiisi School tomorrow.
Steph made me poached eggs on toast for lunch (my favourite!!) unfortunately there weren’t enough eggs for everyone, so the others still had to ha salad sandwiches, sorry guys!
After lunch we had some fun practicing our lesson on all the volunteers. We had some great monkey noises and got some really constructive feedback from everyone. I’m looking forward to going to the school tomorrow and teaching my first lesson in Uganda!
After all the running around we lost our motivation for work. So Abbie, Jade and I decided to decorate camp! My Mum had sent me a ‘party in a bag!’ So we blew up some balloons, covered the tables in confetti, made some paper chains, a big birthday banner and stuck my cards up!! Very exciting!
We then had a girly get ready with a difference…..on a truck! There were about 10 of us girls with 3 mirrors, very little make-up and a scramble for all the nice clothes! It was lots of fun, we had some tunes blasting out and everyone looked amazing!
It was then dinner time. MASH POTATO!! Thanks cook team, an amazing day of birthday food!
Some of the volunteers from Kasiisi school, Chris, Nicholas and Matt arrived and the party got into full swing!! I was so shocked when Laurence and Greg appeared with a Birthday cake!!! I didn’t expect a cake! It was Steph’s birthday last week so she had a cake too! Everyone sang happy birthday to us. I made a wish as I cut the cake, then everyone dived in, it was seriously yummy! Everyone got me a unique handshake t-shirt which was really nice. I’m going to take that round the world with me on my travels!
I share my birthday with my brother Ed, so I rang home to wish him a happy birthday and tell everyone about my day!
Then the drinks started flowing and the party went on into the night! I think that’s enough said……what happens in Uganda stays in Uganda!!
Thanks for an amazing Birthday!!
Ellie Sowerby
July 24th, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Many Happy Returns of the day Ellie.
You all look very happy. What an amazing experience for all of you.
A real cake too. Magic.
Moira