Country Info
- Kigali
- Capital
- Rwanda Franc (RWF)
- Currency
- 7,312,756
- Population
- RW
- Country Code
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Rwanda
Travel Blogs from Rwanda
First Day at Kingdom education centre
Hi everyone at home had first day at KEC it was good to finally see the playground. Before work began we were able to meet some of the pupils and join in on their break time. We marked out the playground with chalk and were able to do some ...
My life as a Volunteer in Rwanda
... for the device. Fortunately there was a good Samaritan who had it waiting for me. I soon jumped onto a plane heading for Kigali, Rwanda. 19 hours after taking off from Calgary I arrived in Kigali at about 8 PM local time Monday night. The first thing I ...
Just Waiting For Our Flight
What we thought was a 9A flight turned out to be an afternoon flight.....day in the airport....oh well, it ...
Home
I leave for home in a little over a month and I'm not sure how I feel about that. I mean, don't get me wrong, I miss my close friends and family very much...but I have to admit that I feel very much at home here in Kigali. I have friends, a job, some ...
Greetings from Nyanza
... morning. The ride down to Nyanza was less than two hours and incredibly beautiful. I’m still shocked at how different Rwanda looks compared to typical images of Africa. The countryside is incredibly green and lush, with tons of hills and terraced ...
Grading Frenzy
... I tell them to tell the government of Rwanda, where stock the person who die in genocide and demand pardon, the government of Rwanda are pardon them and they will go to construct the country who were destruct.” Wow. Bad grammar, but FULL CREDIT for ...
Off to the lake and the Congo border
I arrived in Gisenyi after a 3 hour plesent bus ride from Kigali the capital of Rwanda. The scenery on the drive was quite spetacular with lots of lush hills and an abudance of trees everywhere. Gisenyi is very close to the border of the DRC and is ...
TGIT!
... Senior 4 right now). They kept asking “Teacher, do you think about an animal? Do you think about an animal in Rwanda?” When we finished I explained that their question asks if I think about an animal all the time. Since I’m only ...
Mirror Mirror on the Wall
Well, yesterday I had quite an experience: For the tailor shop we needed to buy some mirrors so that when costumers come to be fitted they can see exactly whats going on. So, Alex (Andy's right hand man) and I went in to town to get some. After riding ...
Never thought I would DJ in Africa
... might be exaggerated but I am sure I give as good as I get. Time is flying by; I am almost half way done my time here. The next couple weeks will likely see a trip west to the lake area of Rwanda and some time north in Uganda. Stay tuned, ...
Bat Cave and Pygmy Village
... path we had seen into the forest led to a little village, not a cave. The difficulty we have here is that the official language in Rwanda was French until a couple of years ago, and now it’s English. As a result, it’s hard to find anyone that ...
We find the source of the Nile
... and in some cases actual video footage of the slaughter.. It was a powerful documentation of what happened in Rwanda as over 1 million souls were brutally murdered in orchestrated mob violence. Significantly however there was no explanation as ...
Training, Frustration, Tea 2
Currently lounging under an umbrella poolside at the Manor hotel with an espresso. Today (Wednesday) is a national holiday (Hero's Day) so we have the day off from training the research assistants, which began on Monday. I am training 5 RAs for the ...
First Day in Rwanda
... whole line...which was nice but i kinda felt bad... then we walked through the area known as "No man's land" between uganda and rwanda...neither country owns the land. so anyway that was neat. and then we crossed the rwanda border and had to go through ...
Rwanda: A Dark Past But A Bright Future...
... had tears in my eyes a few times... so a quick overview of what happened in the 1950s Belgium came and started ruling rwanda. prior to this time, rwandans had their classification as being tutsis or hutus but noone cared who was who. they lived together, ...
Le lac Kivu, son thé et son café
... du lac Kivu dans un Hôtel à bandas magnifiques avec vue sur ce très grand lac qui est partagé entre le Congo et le Rwanda. Ce lac, historiquement, a subi des explosions de méthane (enfoui dans son sous-sol) qui ont anéantis des villages établis sur ...
Painful History
... Hutu and Tutsi details, labels which are no illegal to discuss, ask, or measure in any way. Fils says that in Rwanda, people are always comparing “before” and “now,” and it is never stated directly, but “before” ...
Itching to Get Out of Here
Oh, how I would love to say I didn't write yesterday because I woke up free of all bites, rashes, itchiness and I embraced the entire day with such renewed vigor that I had no time to type a blog! Alas – nothing could be further from the truth. I ...
I Love Tea!
... me again: “You can love a person only.” They couldn’t comprehend that we can say we love things…tea, Rwanda, a pet, football, etc. I said, “I love African tea but I don’t want to marry it!” This was a shocking ...
Proper rubber dinghy English teacher.
Today is the day that Hannah said to me "Just because you hug the kids and try not to tell them off doesn't mean they like you, they respect me more and like me more." This made me think back to secondary school and a teacher whose name eludes me ...
A fish called Rwanda
... be a breeze but it turned into probably the biggest debacle of the trip. When we were crossing, our guide Anna, told us that Rwanda had banned plastic bags outright and if you had one in your possession you could be fined. As we lived out of plastic bags ...
No Goat For Kim
First and foremost – Happy Birthday, Dad!!!! I got to speak to my dad tonight until the minutes ran out on my mobile phone, and it was great to hear his voice. He and Peggy are driving to Florida right now for a two month stay. Hope you're having ...
Update
... going to introduce a program to elementary and middle school students in the States that will allow every teacher in Rwanda to receive a K-Light. I think that this has an amazing potential since it compliments the pre-existing curriculum requirements for ...
19 Points of Light
Yet another full few days, so much so that I haven't had time to write! I’ve had such a fulfilling weekend that I don’t even know where to begin. So I won’t. I’ll just list some of the highlights and vignettes that stand out in my ...
my new kind of paradise
HU-JAMBO!!!!!! C'est tres jolie ici. Mas francais as improvement. I love it here. We're camping on the beach. I apologize for no photos....the internet is so slow here it's frustrating. But I don't have too much desire to be on here unless I am saying ...
Work!
Can it really be six days since I've posted a blog? Yikes! Time is slipping by. I usually find that either I don’t have time to write, or I’m too exhausted at the end of the day, or my computer time is spent doing other things. I guess those ...
Honeymoon, hills and a magical experience
... , but the three days spent in the mountains of Ruhengeri and the surrounding countryside will be a special memory forever. Rwanda itself is a country recovering from the self-inflicted wounds of 1994. Particularly poignant were the open-air court ...