A warm welcome

Amy and I were greeted with a very warm welcome at Entebbe airport by Halcyon's Headteacher, Marcel. After being stuck on Heathrow runway for nine hours due to ice on the plane, and a further two days of transfers and delays to be greeted so warmly was very gratefully received. Our journey however, was not yet over. An eight hour drive from Entebbe to Soroti was pretty rough even in a 4WD. The country is however, beautiful. Deep and impenetrable forests merge into acres of tea and coffee plantations, followed by swamp land further to the north. We stopped for plantain (cooked banana) and roast chicken at Mbale, finally arriving at Soroti late in the evening. Halcyon's founder, Helen Adoa was there late in the evening to welcome us with rice and stew.