Royale Villas Kigali
Nyarutarama Kigali, Rwanda
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A Comfortable Start
... reviewed CVs of research assistants and plan on conducting interviews on Friday to form the team that we will train to do the testing. At 7:00, we called it a day and came back home to Mercy’s for another good dinner, showers and rest. I chose to write this, someone else is playing ukulele, and the rest of the house is quiet now at 10:00. We should have internet access tomorrow so I can check email and let people know I am alive and well. Great start to the ...
Muraho Rwanda!
... training and helmets for passangers. I wrapped one arm around the driver to balance myself on the motorcycle and held the back of the seat with the other. As we traveled I looked at other "moto" passengers and noted that none of them were touching the driver. As I paid him at the airport I noted a hint of a blush on his face, which in retrospect is surprising given how tactile Rwandan culture is. Bag in tow I returned to Chez Rose for dinner and an early night's sleep.
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Never thought I would DJ in Africa
... celebrate the end of the
year the students organized a party. I offered to DJ the event if I
could make it work. Make it work I did! In order to create enough
sound to override the noise of a 100 people partying I had string
together every speaker available at the school into one big sound
system. Even with all of the speakers stringed together the sound was
still a little anemic, but it got the job done. I encourage you to
check out the video link ...
My life as a Volunteer in Rwanda
... of the first
week auditing each computer and fixing various problems they all
have. The entire lab suffers from a lack of coherent vision with
respect to how these computers will be administered and used. With an
eye towards first standardizing their functionality we have been
making sure all computers run on the same operating system (Windows
XP SP 2) and that they all have a version of Office, Mavis Beacon and
access to the Internet. After a four full days ...
Not exactly a fun day
... noticed they were all wearing purple - a shirt, a tie, a scard or a ribbon. Purple is the colour of genocide memorial. We first saw them in the beautiful grounds, where the mass graves of about 250,000 people are, then we bumped into them in the museum .It is numbing, not just reading history, those whose history it was grieving next to you.
No taxis so we tried to walk back. Despite getting dark felt very safe until we saw a lot of soldiers with ...


