No shower for at least the next 3 weeks!

I have arrived in Soroti and met with a young chap who was to show me where I will stay.

We kept driving further and further from the town centre across bumpy dusty unsurfaced roads, past small mud huts with no doors and windows, I had tried to keep my expectations very low, but I was now a little worried that I would be in one of these huts with no electricity, no doors and no windows!

Anyway we arrived at the place, a basic stone building with a seating area and some beer for sale at the front and a courtyard out the back with 4 rooms facing onto it.

2 of the rooms were not fully built and the courtyard is full of construction waste. The room I was shown too was however basic, but not bad. It has an ensuite bathroom.... which was just empty apart from a pile of tools and building materials.

The guy then told me there is no running water on site and the toilet was a hole in the ground is a small square brick building at the back. For showering, he brought me a jerry can of water and a bucket, then pointed out a small walled area with an open ceiling where I could use this (I would need to re-fill the jerry can from the tap by the street).

I have used the toilet a huge amount already, due to something I ate which didn't quite agree with my stomach, sharing it with huge cockroaches scurrying around. However I have been putting off using the 'shower', not looking forwards to walking across the construction site and throwing water over my head from a jerry can until now. I re-used a large water bottle and have punched 6 or 7 holes in the lid with my knife. Filling it woth water and squeezing it over my head works pretty good. Just gone through 3 bottles and I feel fantastic....

There is no mosquito net (luckily I brought one with me which just about stretched to cover the mattress - I would have been hit in the side of the head by a huge cockroach had I not had it last night), but at least the place has a power point in the room, the door has a lock and the guy who runs it tries to help out and always has a smile on his face!

Will be adding photos of my new home soon.