Mbale Part 2
After being delayed in Kampala for a few days due to car troubles, I eventually caught a special hire(Taxi) with Ian & Tash’s friends to MBale. It ended up costing us 200,000 shillings which is about $126. On the way we stopped off at a supermarket and I was nearly blown away. It’s amazing how quickly you forget how good and big supermakets are.
With the delays in Kampala I ended up delaying some of my work on my presentations for the workshop on the Thursday(6th). Ian who was meant to be doing half of the presentations ended up stuck waiting for the car in Kampala and missed the workshop. So suddenly I had to prepare the entire workshop myself. During the day I had to prepare, I was also entertaining Ian and Tash’s guests. I was a little stressed that day.
When it came time to do the workshop the sessions on power, file organisation, Excel, Powerpoint and Word went pretty well. I really needed to a week or more of sessions, but I am happy with what I fit in. I would of loved to go more in depth and to split participants into smaller groups or individuals (I had three groups of 5 people), but with no one to help run the sessions I couldn’t really do so.
My favorite session was Excel, where I made people use Excel as a planning tool.
The funniest session was the Word Q AND A session where I didn’t know how to do half the things I was asked, (OPS).
After the workshop I relaxed for a few days before moving on to Kaberamadio.