Thursday: Another Day Without Power

On Wednesday evening three of our team members left.  Alison Tallman left for Kingston.  She was anxious to get home to her family.  Debra and Sarah left on the same flight but they were heading to London, England via Amsterdam.  The balance of the group stayed on but for the most part our work was done.  On Thursday morning some members of the group elected to go back to the Wentz Clinic.  Erin, for example, did some nursing with the staff and spoke with the lab technologist.  I elected to stay behind to work on my blog as I was so far behind at this point.  Alas, this was a futile plan, due to a local power outage.  There had been a storm in Ggaba the day before which didn't affect us on Bethany Island.  This storm had apparently damaged the local transformer for the power was out throughout the entire village.  While waiting for the power to come back (which it didn't) I did some reading.  It was very relaxing and a much needed break.  I have no pictures to post from that day but the sun was bright and warm.  Life goes on in Uganda without power.  Our hotel had a generator but they only ran it for a few hours in the evening.  Gas is used to fuel stoves and many locals still cook outside over open fires.  Despite the lack of power the staff at the hotel made us many delicious meals of vegetables, fish, chicken and eggs with plenty of pineapple and watermelon for dessert.