{"id":71,"date":"2015-02-23T19:44:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T19:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda15\/?p=71"},"modified":"2015-02-23T21:03:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T21:03:30","slug":"day-2-bbcs-phil-mackie-reporting-from-soroti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda15\/2015\/02\/23\/day-2-bbcs-phil-mackie-reporting-from-soroti\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 2 – BBC’s Phil Mackie reporting from Soroti"},"content":{"rendered":"

Talk about a bus man’s holiday! Our first full day in Soroti in Eastern Uganda began with myself & Jamie Burton getting up at 05.30 in order to appear as guests live on the Breakfast show at Kyoro Veritas, the second most listened to station in the district.<\/p>\n

Expecting a quick interview about Cricket Without Boundaries, and the HIV\/aids message, we braced ourselves for 5 minutes on air, perhaps 15 at the studios. Two hours of live radio later, yes – 2 hours; we left, battle-weary and exhausted, for our first experience of coaching in Uganda.<\/p>\n

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We went far further than simply re-iterating the charity’s message. We talked about the potential to develop training to incorporate other issues, Hepatitis and FGM for instance; we discussed the future of Ugandan cricket; and, to my delight and Jamie’s despair, celebrated with the presenters when news broke of England’s victory over Scotland in the Cricket World Cup.<\/p>\n

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By 9 we had joined up with the rest of the team at the Soroti sports ground for a day’s teacher training.
\nThen three things happened that everyone who knows Africa would have expected, but one thing caught us by surprise. First, far more people turned up than were expected; secondly, and despite repeated messages that teachers shouldn’t bring children, they did; and despite being promised that children would be fed and watered, they weren’t. What really blindsided us was that everyone turned up on time.<\/p>\n

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After making a TV film and recording a radio programme about CWB in 2012, I was thrilled to be asked to volunteer, and thoroughly enjoyed my first “proper” day. I coached alongside John Colley, a fellow CWB virgin, and natural loudmouth. I mean that as a compliment. If you were to design an archetype for a good coach, you would come up with him. His solution to everything – a cold beer – would undoubtedly make him a popular addition to any future CWB tour.<\/p>\n

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We also spent time with Jackson Ogwang, Emmanuel Isaneez, two of our three Ugandan coaches having an exceptionally enjoyable and fulfilling afternoon.<\/p>\n

Roll on tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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