Hotel Garni Du Centre Kigali

... of what we were told. And it explains the photo of me standing outside the hotel with a thumbs down.



Echalotte and I were pretty much incredibly disappointed and agreed to write to lonely planet to tell them a small caption should be included as a health warning under the “sleeping” section to Kigali: if the idea that some profited from the events of 1994 would make you sick, or if you are hoping to stay somewhere a hero from that period came ...

... Lobato x2” held by the friendly faced Jimmy. I say to him “that would be a very bad thing. Me times 2, you’ll see”.

The dreaded part of our journey was upon us. Our trip to the Rwandair Express ticket office. This had been a saga of many emails and phone calls to Rwandan mobile numbers with African music blaring in the back and an almost inaudible voice saying “ne vous inquietez, vos billets seront a l’office de ...

... m in the know about the glorious happenings of our last 4 hour meeting. Luckily, she doesn’t read the words from the previous event verbatim, just summing up in a short 15 minutes of jibber jabber. After she finishes, I also add, “Well, I’m glad that got cleared up.” No one laughs.

2:55 pm: Issue Du Jour – We discuss the issue du jour, in this case first week tests designed to make students study at home and come back ...

... sobering and informative experience. In 1993, one in eight of the country's people was raped, tortured, beaten and/or murdered within a short few months. Over 1 million lost their lives, and the museum told their upsetting story very well. There were stories and visions which I would like to forget, but hope I never will.

Definitely a country in which I hope to return – stunning, intriguing, memorable.

... to death. Parents were forced to kill their children before they themselves were murdered, children forced to watch their parents tortured, raped, and killed. The strangest thing is that the French actually armed the militia and trained them, the UN was aware of the plans for genocide and could have seized the hiden weapons, and with the troops that were there before the violence started could have stoped it from hapening. Once it was decided to do something even ...

... of 7 hours to reach our destination. We got in at 18:00 absolutely exhausted. In the morning we were met by our new driver and cook again to be told that it was just the two of us, perfect. This safari took in the Mayanmara NP, the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Crater. We had an exceptional day in the Serengeti, including an attempted lion kill right in front of our vehicle. We annoyed a lot of people as they had been waiting around the small pool of water for 1.5 hours ...

Daniel and Cindy were gone by the time I got up this morning. My night had been interrupted by stomach pains around 03:00 and I hadn't slept well afterward, so I was tired today, and not at 100%. Doc and I needed to leave at 6:30 so we could be at Runda by 7:00 and avoid the road-blocks. The police wouldn’t try to make us work, but they might draft our driver until 11:00.

Once while on my way to Giti a few years back to inaugurate the new Church hall, with a ...

... wrapped things up at 5:00 and settled down for a last Q&A session, which we shortened half an hour to leave some time for preparations before the start of the Sabbath.

Greg Swartz: finished up a few questions he had left.

I answered a series of questions about how men enter the ministry, by what criteria they are chosen, and how elections work for positions of responsibility within our ministry in UCG. Daniel Harper covered the last ...

we 4 Americans met for breakfast at the hotel restaurant at 7:30. Among other things we're all enjoying the fresh ripe fruit: pineapple, papaya, Chinese plums, and small sweet bananas.

Samuel was ready to go at 8:00, but traffic was very heavy, so we had to take a detour and more than half an hour just to get to central Kigali. We stopped at a Bible book store to purchase Bibles for the young people that didn’t have them. We bought 7 Bibles in ...

... years, has a sister who is a professor of French and genocide studies at the same university! Professor Béatrice (I don't’ have her last name yet) is here with the university students for a two-week program. Of course we knew none of this when Dr Swartz began working here in Kigali. Who would have imagined such a connection between a dentist in Kigali, Rwanda and a dentist from the Columbia, Missouri area?

After breakfast, Doc (as he is affectionately known) took ...