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Today is National Heroes Day - a public holiday and hence most things were closed, shops, market, internet etc. but the prisoners were still wondering around in their baby pink or orange three quarter length outfits doing manual jobs round the town. It was a nice chilled morning finishing the second of the four no 1 ladies detective agency books I’ve brought out with me! I’ll be a detective by the end of this trip!
Two of the other volunteers come through from Kigali today to get a taster in small town life. It is a huge change, and no doubt quite relaxing out of the big city. We wandered around the back streets of Rwamagana - any fly on the wall would have thought we were the pied piper the number of children we had following us around. Gosh they mush have tough feet those kids, running and playing on the earth……and yet every time I come out here my feet just crack! Not once did they ask for money - it was quite fun playing pied piper. Fortunately we anticipated the time it would take to cook our brochettes for lunch and so ordered before we’d built up an appetite and hey bingo an hour later when the food arrived we were quite peckish.

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Comments

[katy]

Sounds like a very lovely day well spent!

[Natalie]

I love those books Jess :D Alexander McCall Smith makes you feel like you are in Botswana! What great books to read whilst you are there. Hope all is going well, I am loving your blogs - so great to hear what is going on in another very different country, a lovely break to the mundane aspects of life here in the UK. Lots of love Nat xxx