Home sweet home

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Sunday i left Kigali and headed out to my placement in the east of Rwanda in a small town called Rwamagana. It was a beautiful drive through lush green countryside - growing bananas, avocados, sweetcorn you name it. All along the route, people walking.
I am staying and working in the building in the photo with two other uk volunteers and the deputy headmaster of college that the charity i'm working for runs.

It is basic but perfect. i have a large room, attached to one of the offices where we have meetings, in the door on the left of the veranda. no more luxury of a toilet - back to a longdrop for the next six weeks and washing from a bucket, having collected the water from the tap in the garden. There is also a cook who prepares all our food and does our washing! who hardly speaks any english or french.

We are just off the main tarmac road through the centre of the town and so plenty of opportunity to people watch!

It is, like the rest of the country, green and hilly and there's a lake not far so i'll have to investigate that soon 😊

Plenty more to tell but i'll save that for another time and cut my losses before this internet connection packs up on me!

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Comments

[Katy]

Wow!
Jess, the updates and photos are great! Basic but perfect sounds awesome to me. Never heard an outhouse called a longdrop...but I have to say the term brought a smile to my face (how juvenile am I?!!). xxx

[Ed]

WOW
Jess - it looks awesome and sounds like a luxury african lifestyle you are leading! Still cold and miserable here, oh how Id love to be in Africa!! Make the most of it and go to that lake - it looks amazing. Loads of love xxxxxx

[JessPS]

it's pretty descriptive eh! x