As students in most rural and urban schools fight for porridge (without sugar and accompaniments ) at breakfast and for posho at lunch, at Vienna College in Namugongo, students during breakfast can choose between French Toast, milk tea, hot chocolate.
They are simply spoilt for choice as Bbeg Media, which has accessed a copy of the school food menu, reveals.
On Monday, a student at Vienna College can choose to eat French toast or melon slice with milk tea or coffee for breakfast. For lunch on Monday, they can eat steamed matooke, macaroni and steamed beef.
On Thurday they can have Hot Chocolate and a Buttered Roll for breakfast. At supper, they eat Ugali with Fried Goat.
For Sunday lunch they have Lasagna and Grilled Chicken. For dessert they have pineapple and yoghurt.
They even eat Sautéed Chicken, twice a week which is specially cooked in an open, shallow pan, using a small amount of oil or butter over fairly high heat. This is the type of chicken you eat at Mongolian Night at Kabira Country Club in Lugogo on Fridays.
They accompany their meals with fresh orange juice and not water from a tap or borehole like it is in some schools.
A teacher who has taught at the school told Bbeg Media that even with such an enticing menu, students have to be literally begged to eat these meals. In most rural schools, students push and shove each other in the food line.
But you have to keep in mind that Vienna College, is an international school that attracts students from rich and wealthy families.
A Year 7 (senior one) student at Vienna College pays $1582 which is roughly Shs 6 million per term. However a Year 13 abd 13 (S5, S6) student offering sciences pays $2950 per term which is Shs 11 million.
Vienna College is a home to over 400 students, most of whom reside on the extensive campus at Namugongo.
It is also a Cambridge International (CIE) Centre.
