I can’t believe that this time last week I was having a final supper with my folks followed by dancing with Tom and his very high wasted trouser dancing! Anyway...6 days living in Rwanda, I still only have one suitcase, apparently my case wasn’t even put onto the plane...so it is sat at London Heathrow Airport....quite why no one realised that a case that should have been in Kigali 6 days days ago was still in London...but anyway...following a very long frustrating visit to the airport, my case has been located...now we are just awaiting its arrival. Training started on Monday, a welcome meeting and a walking tour of the city. The hustle and bustle of Kigali looks, feels and smells different to anything I have ever experienced before, the smell of taxi bus fumes...I think I might quite like it! I am a little concerned however, that if I am often unable to find my way around London where everything is signposted...what on earth am I going to do here!! Tuesday we started our Kinyarwanda lessons...oh...my...total...god....I am REALLY bad!!!! Ha ha ha! So...language training is from 8.30 -10.45 each morning (although I am not going tomorrow as I am going to try and sort out my luggage!!) We have had several placement discussions and I now have a clearer idea of what I am going to be doing, however, I really think it is going to be a case of waiting and seeing what happens when I meet my employer next week and go to Gisagara, where I will be working. We have also had cultural training, training for using kerosene lamps and stoves, bbqs, and water filters...I am sure that I will have forgotten all of this by the time I actually get to my house! I have been very brave with the food...I am sure that you all would have been very proud of me, especially considering how I was only a few months ago! Anyway...The other night, in addition to the usual goat stew (which I have tried!) and fish (although I am not quite sure where it is from as we are totally landlocked...land fish maybe? Mika did predict this happening!) anyway...chicken was also on offer...although at first I was not sure what it was...I waited for Paul one of the other volunteers to try it first....he said was definitely chicken...awesome!!! So I got some chicken....now you have to remember that by 7pm it is dark...and the lighting is best described as low and milky...things are quite difficult to see...anyway, I helped myself to chicken and while I was putting it on my plate...I spotted an olive. I love olives, although I did nearly break a tooth on an olive stone last week! So...I also took the olive...the chicken was very nice indeed...and then for the olive...I have no idea why I thought there might be an olive in the middle of Rwanda, at the time it didn’t seem in the slightest bit strange. I saved the olive till last...the only problem was...it wasn’t a bloody olive...I think it was a chicken Kidney...oh my god...I nearly ate a kidney...I was even careful not to break a tooth on the stone!! So...yes...my food adventures have gone far further than anyone had ever predicted...but I don’t think I will be trying that one again in a hurry!!! Ha ha ha!!! So...sorry for the boring waffle...I am sure that you are all finding it far more interesting than the work you should be doing right now!!! I am sure I will be back again soon with another thrilling instalment...I am just off for a drink...