Welcome Melissa, Stephen, Rana, Hussain, Peter, Cathy, Christine, Annemiek, Antonia, Jeremy, Colette, Shala, Steve, Kristenne, Nic, Vanessa, Yolanda, Evelyn and Ken!!!
It is Sunday morning January and I am about to pack up my stuff and head into Kigali Centre for a meeting before getting the bus down to Butare and Gisagara. It has been quite a month and apologies to all for the failure to update but I have had other things to occupy me. Martine went home Friday 22nd and has arrived back in Edinburgh safe and sound and since Saturday 16th I have been acting as live-in adviser to the new intake of VSO Rwanda volunteers, nineteen of them in total, here in the Amani Guesthouse. That has been an extremely enjoyable but tiring experience so I am looking forward to heading home and to an established routine for a while!! Also, the landlord was having the entire house painted while Sarah and I were away and we are looking forward (with a mixture of anticipation and anxiety) to seeing what has happened in our absence.
So there is much to catch up on - the house refurbishment, the REAP inspections, the trip to Gisenyi, Kigali, the new volunteers and much, much more. But I have to be in town in less than an hour and I have at least 50% more stuff than my rucksack will hold so I am off to unload stuff on the new Butare volunteers as I can pick it up from them easily later in the week.
Talk again soon!!
