Sunday 11 September 2011

The first week!

Arrived to a cloudy day in Kigali.  Here is our first view of Kigali airport.

Met at the airport by Jean Claude, Ruth and Bosco all smiles and with a lovely gift of flowers.



We are staying at the Amani Guest house until next Wed 14th September.  The people are extremely friendly and very nice.  Rooms are great and have power and running water.  The food is also good.
We have fresh pineapple every morning and omlette.  For lunch we usually have a Rwandan dish called melange which is a little of everything!  Usually beans, onions, cucumber, tomatoes, rice, fried potatoes, fried banana, spinach and a very small portion of a stew and/or fish.  Desert is bananas, tree tomatoes or passion fruit.  For evening meal it’s the same!

This is a typical Rwandan street near where the guest house is.

Despite it still being the dry season until the end of September it has rained for a while on most days and we had a serious thunder storm on two of the days so far.
Last night we had a get together with all the volunteers who are already in Rwanda which was nice and I met Roisin my flatmate.  We saw some dancers – they were great.


The men were good too.  Unfortunately it was so dark that the pictures have not come out very well.

Going to the market today which should be interesting. I haven’t tried out my skills on the moto taxis yet but hope to have my first expedition this afternoon. 

The Kinyargwanda is coming on but slowly or buhoro in Rwandan!  More to follow but for now murabeho – goodbye.

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