On Friday morning, the president announced that he would address the nation that evening. Announcing a speech with no notice is never good news. We …
Jessica Hughes
Here we go again
On the evening of 6 June, the president addressed the nation and finally announced what we were all dreading and yet expecting: since our COVID …
Uganda update
Greetings from rainy Mukono! I wanted to give you an update on how we are in Uganda here. Like the rest of the world, we are watching with somewhat …
Ugandan quarantine
I must say, it has been quite surreal to read the news about Coronavirus in the world, especially in the US, mostly because it's hard to see the …
Supervision selfies
One of my favorite things about being a lecturer is supervising our students in their block placement churches, or senior internships. It's so fun to …
Rain, rain go away
I've been hearing that the rain in Mukono, and in Uganda generally, has been too much. The rainy seasons often bring mudslides, so news of those was …
Good to be home
After seven months in the US, I was more than a little concerned about how my reentry to Uganda would be. I'd become pretty Americanized; I even …
Aerial tour of UCU
I recently saw this posted on Facebook; it's a fabulous aerial tour of UCU, showing how beautiful the campus is. As I watched the first time, I was …