Hotel Fontana Inn Kinshasa

On prend soit un ferry ou bien un hors bord pour se rendre de brazzaville vers kinshasa. Les riches prennent le hors bord et on a moins de problemes administratifs a la frontiere, donc j ai pris le hors bord. L arrivee a kinshasa est vraiment un souvenir memorable. Les officiels vous saisissent le passport et on essaye de vous diriger vers tel ou tel ...

... in need, in line with what we have done in other African countries. Then I turned on my laptop and we had a long, computer-illustrated discussion about the UCG association and its work around the world, especially French-Africa, and I used a PowerPoint presentation to illustrate our governmental structure. There were lots of question, and it was a very useful discussion by all accounts. We ...

... engine?) In any event he was turning the key and fiddling with something on the left side of the steering column and finally got the motor to start again. We pulled back out onto the road and continued. This happened four times on the way into Kinshasa. It's the rainy season now and that always degrades the roads. Some potholes or just gaps in the entire surface were so deep that the car scraped it's bottom as we went in or out. It took an hour to get to the hotel ...

... Dawn, Panashe and I are stuck here and unable to leave. Denise (the COngolese lady who works with UNICEF) was joking about how i could attend university here. ha ha ha.  There is so much corruption in this country its actually really sad. My dad says that there is no chance we are not going to be able to leave. :P Ive g ot my fingers crossed. I leave in exactly 7days. ill keep you guys posted. 

So here I am thinking today is Monday and that there are I leave in 11 days. Turns out its Sunday. I have lost all track of time in this place. At one point, I was one hour ahead, then I was OK and now I find that for the last week I have been a day ahead!? What the hell. The trouble is, I keep mucking about with the clock on my computer. I should just leave it. I messed around with my google calendar and now it ****ed. :( Em going to change it back to the NZ setting because I ...

... the way they think. NO sense at all. This university was not just a university. It was a medical school and hospital all rolled into one. To destroy something that is so integral to the well-being of your people shows a deep stupidity. You have to be a complete ****ing moron. Now I am getting angry and its the day before Christmas. The thing is its 3.17am here and I cant sleep. The A/C in my room is not working. I am now in the living room and it is so so much cooler in ...

... it. Mr. Mukendi has offered to pick me up early tomorrow and drive me to the airport. It's important in Kinshasa to leave plenty of extra time because all sorts of things can happen on the road out there and even in the airport itself. He told me "our airports are not like yours" to which I smiled and said that I had noticed.... Tomorrow if all goes as planned I will fly to Nairobi where I will have to spend the night before going on the Bujumbura the next day.

... oth**s. We didn't see much out the windows along the way: the Medit**ranean was all ov**cast, and most of Africa was as well. Even the Sahara, which is usually clearly visible even from 39,000,000 feet, was obscured by clouds or blurred by vapor. We flew ov** Alg**ia, *****, *****ia, Cam**oon, Gabon and the oth** Congo. Th**e are two Congos - one a form** French colony now called Republic of the Congo, and one form**ly Belgian; the one wh**e I was going ...

... by sheer force of personality. A rueful old man was slowly stacking plastic crates full of broken, dripping bottles. The smell registered - one of those brightly hued, mysteriously popular sugar concoctions no sane person should ever drink (I saw a dog come to the same conclusion after a few tentative licks of the road.) There was no sign of the lorry the crates had evidently tumbled from.

... me around quickly and once again they asked if we could pray together, and I was happy to oblige. By the time our short visit had ended the sun was sinking in the sky, and in Kinshasa it's best to be in by dark. We drove back to the hotel, and agreed to meet the next morning at 9:30 to go to services which would be held at Jacob's house. The Internet was a little more fluid in the early evening and I was able to do my due diligence. For dinner I had a pizza out in the straw ...