Long Weekend

This past Friday I walked to school only to find that there were no classes and no one had bothered to tell me. It was Ede, the last day of Ramadan, and I guess since there are a good bit of Muslims in the Holy Cross schools Friday was taken off. So to celebrate this Muslim holiday the OLM's (the ND grads)and me went to town for pork and beer.
On Sunday I went for a run up the hill. While I was up there I had a pretty scary encounter with a bull. I was stretching in the field on top of the hill where I had previously never seen anything but bushes and rocks. But when I stood up I noticed this bull that was coming toward me, and it was startled a good deal. So then it doubled around and I started power walking the hell out of there, but then the bull started to charge. When I realized it was committed, I knew that I wouldn't do any good running so I stopped and faced it. I was damn lucky too because it pulled out of the charge about fifteen feet in front of me. That's when I decided it was time to end my run and head back.
Yesterday I taught English and also Science, and both classes went very well. Today I will meet my Dad who is arriving in Entebbe at 8:15 tonight. On Thursday we are flying to Bwindi, the southwest corner of Uganda, where we will track Gorillas on Friday.