Banana Guest House Kigali

... and, not to be stopped by a closed door with a card swiper, I knocked on the glass door only, to be greeted by a very friendly guy, typically in charge of cargo but who was happy to double check our changed flight time and reassure us there was no need, actually to be at the airport at 5am for a 7am flight (Echalotte maintains he was so obliging due only to the shortness of my poolside skirt which had otherwise cause quite a The Emperor’s Clothes style scene ...

... time to get to know the awesome Jimmy, we piled into his Landrover and headed to Bourbon. Only an AWESOME café that serves my new favourite, Zucchini bread, on the terrace of the first ever shopping centre of Rwanda, built in 2004.

We were in Kigali only 3 hours but I heard 3 separate people say “after all, this is a new country. We’ve only just begun”. We chatted to Manze, the director of our tour company, (write this down, Thousand ...

... forcibly give pregnancy tests to all the female students in order to scare them into not having sex. That one didn’t go over too well. I may have objected, strenuously even (imagine that last part having been said in my Snaggletooth voice and it might be funny. Might…).) The Issue du Jour takes a long, fricking time to discuss, due to its obvious vast importance. Despite this long winded discussion which involves much gnashing of teeth, no ...

A trip to a meeting to our HQ in Munich was meanwhile postponed 3 times and now it's set on beginning of October. Let's hope the best, cause then I could join my son Vinzent 4th birthday at home.
This week there's a pre meeting in Beijing about contractural issues with the managers. Hopefully they made the right desicisons.

... murdering and raping savagely. Priests would call the towns to the church so that the militia could collapse the building on them...the most trusted people were the most dangerous. It reminde me of what Baracka said...your closest friend is also your worst enemy. Sad to think like that but I now understand why. Walking the streets there are some people that had fled the country that have returned but the vast majority of people I meet that are my age were here ...

... have never seen a lion kill or attempted kill before, so that was excellent. We managed to see the big five over all the national parks plus a lot of other animals, so we can tick the box and move on.

Camping at the 'camp site' in the Serengeti was a barrel of laughs as it is basically slap bang in the middle of the NP. Tourists are advised to stay within the area marked with flags hanging on trees to minimize the danger. Trouble is the animals don't understand the ...

... of the campers, and fellowshipped with those who spoke English or French. Another humorous translation situation came up. One of the young adults explained that he had been gaining weight and was having a hard time figuring out what to do. Doc starting explaining that more exercise would help. Another young adult, translating into his imperfect English, made another suggestion which made me laugh. He explained simply "he must reduce feeding!" I’m laughing again ...

... required, but it is actually the last. So tomorrow from 7:00 to 11:00 everyone in the country will be expected to work on some municipal improvement works (filling potholes, clearing roadside gutters, cutting brush etc). To ensure the church members from Giti would be allowed to pass, Mr. Mundeli would have to go up to Giti to accompany them with official documents about our Church registration and beliefs about the Sabbath. Sabbath keepers are allowed to do ...

... fumigate the rooms before going to bed again that night. We hope that will work well.

We started right away by distributing the Bibles and then went on to Christian Living. I talked about how we want camp to be different from school: at camp we call it "the zone." I explained how we want camp to be safe, a place where we can all have confidence in one another, be good influences on one another, and apply the Golden Rule in word and deed. Greg Swartz took ...

... He wanted to show me the private clinic of Dr. Kamanzi, and how poorly equipped the local dentists are here. It is his hope that through Smile Rwanda, new equipment – dental chairs with drills and other tools that work well – can be supplied to dentists here both in the public and private sectors.

It was a pleasure for me to see Dr. Kamanzi again, she asked about my family whom she met three years ago and we exchanged pleasantries. She was attempting to do ...