Boring Entry but cute pictures!!

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So, back to Kigali on Friday, went to Graham and Sarah MacFadden’s house where I am staying for the weekend and droped off my stuff. Then off to meet Mike and Tamsin and the twins!!! Matthew and Annabel (see pictures) are still really tiny but (Alfred: and bear in mind, friends and family, who exactly is saying this) SO cute!! Then back to Graham and Sarah’s for ... Indian Kazana takeaway!! (You have to have been in Kigali to appreciate what this means).

Saturday was Liberation Day, a big national holiday celebrating the day the genocide finally ended and I, of course, forgot. So I toddled off to do things and visit people and found everyone out or closed or whatever. Eventually I found a bunch of people in Blues Café so I hung out there for a bit – Sarah turned up to collect her surge protector!! Then I met up with Micheál Boland and we went back to Sarah and Graham’s to watch the rugby. Then back to La Planete to meet Andy and Jane and Thom and then back to Sarah and Graham’s (Alfred: Sweet Lord above, could this be any more boring? I keep telling him, a blog is NOT a diary, you are supposed to record the interesting things that happen, acid or penetrating observations on the society around you, witty and entertaining comments, NOT brushing your teeth, shopping and the order you put your socks on!)

Good point. Actually it was really nice hanging out with Graham and Sarah, whom I hadn’t seen in a while – they are the British Council here in Rwanda (John Simpson is also but he seems to have been permanently kidnapped by MINEDUC) and doing a damn good job! But, Alfred is right .... headed down to Butare Sunday after meeting Steve MacFadden for coffee (Alfred: and, if the eagle-eyed among you are awake, you will have spotted that Steve from Vancouver and Graham from ... wherever in England have the same surname. Are they related? Probably, as both their ancestors hail from the same small village in County Louth. The story would be better if I could remember the name of the village but there you go – still quite a coincidence).

Alfred: Next instalment: Nairobi v. Kigali, Kenya v. Rwanda - reflections!!

Tamsin and Annabel on the left, Mike (VSO Rwanda Country Director) and Matthew on the right.