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Wednesday 16th September 2009
This morning we headed for the Education office once again. It is a funny feeling being the first in...not being the last one rushing through the door in a mad rush...but then again, no one here appears to rush anything at all...least of all to work (with the exception of the 2 hour Monday morning meeting) I managed to entertain myself for the best part of an hour and a half...then we were informed by Alexis that there was a very important meeting at one of the schools in the district to celebrate the beginning of the 9 years basic education, the minister for education would be there along with several other district officials...we however would be going to a local school for the celebrations, as would all the staff from the district office. We were to be leaving in a few minutes...so I packed up my laptop...and waited...and waited...after I had sat there for a considerable amount of time (well ok...15 minutes...but it felt like a lifetime!), we asked what time the ceremony was...10am, but it was a fair walk. We decided to drop off our things at the house and then make our way to the district office for 9.30am when all the people who were working there would be walking to the school. I left first, as I have decided that I need to start heading out on my own, the more I do it the less people will follow, stare and shout is the plan. Yesterday I was followed home by a group of children, there must have been about 10 of them...it was a rather uncomfortable experience...mostly due to the 2 slightly older children who appeared to be playing a game whereby they had to run in front of me, catch my eye and then run away again...anyway...I ventured out on my own back to the house where I collected a book and my camera; the camera for obvious reasons and the book because at such events there is often a lot of waiting around...not something I wanted to do with no entertainment at all. Ruairi caught up with me at the house and we headed out to the district off...when we got there...no one seemed to be showing any signs of leaving their work and getting ready to go...after a little investigation it was discovered that the meeting had in fact been cancelled...again this is quite a common occurrence...we headed back to the house. Today for some reason I was extremely tired, I dozed in a chair for the best part of 2 hours, before having lunch...a banana and 4 malted milk biscuits...I was feeling a little odd...not ill but also not quite right and decided that the sugar rush would be enough to get to back to the district office. I think Alexandre might think that I am slightly mad...he came in to find me sat at the table with a glass of passion fruit squash and 4 biscuits on a plate....I still have to have the pineapple...maybe lunch tomorrow! The afternoon was spent trying to update my antivirus...but the internet is very unreliable and had a tendency to cut out...so I haven’t actually managed that yet...maybe in Kigali at the weekend. We had a early dinner, Ruairi went for a drink with Enok, while I stayed at home and watched yet more LOST...I do love it but is does freak me out a little bit...I then had to watch South Park before I headed to bed!
Wednesday 16th September 2009
This morning we headed for the Education office once again. It is a funny feeling being the first in...not being the last one rushing through the door in a mad rush...but then again, no one here appears to rush anything at all...least of all to work (with the exception of the 2 hour Monday morning meeting) I managed to entertain myself for the best part of an hour and a half...then we were informed by Alexis that there was a very important meeting at one of the schools in the district to celebrate the beginning of the 9 years basic education, the minister for education would be there along with several other district officials...we however would be going to a local school for the celebrations, as would all the staff from the district office. We were to be leaving in a few minutes...so I packed up my laptop...and waited...and waited...after I had sat there for a considerable amount of time (well ok...15 minutes...but it felt like a lifetime!), we asked what time the ceremony was...10am, but it was a fair walk. We decided to drop off our things at the house and then make our way to the district office for 9.30am when all the people who were working there would be walking to the school. I left first, as I have decided that I need to start heading out on my own, the more I do it the less people will follow, stare and shout is the plan. Yesterday I was followed home by a group of children, there must have been about 10 of them...it was a rather uncomfortable experience...mostly due to the 2 slightly older children who appeared to be playing a game whereby they had to run in front of me, catch my eye and then run away again...anyway...I ventured out on my own back to the house where I collected a book and my camera; the camera for obvious reasons and the book because at such events there is often a lot of waiting around...not something I wanted to do with no entertainment at all. Ruairi caught up with me at the house and we headed out to the district off...when we got there...no one seemed to be showing any signs of leaving their work and getting ready to go...after a little investigation it was discovered that the meeting had in fact been cancelled...again this is quite a common occurrence...we headed back to the house. Today for some reason I was extremely tired, I dozed in a chair for the best part of 2 hours, before having lunch...a banana and 4 malted milk biscuits...I was feeling a little odd...not ill but also not quite right and decided that the sugar rush would be enough to get to back to the district office. I think Alexandre might think that I am slightly mad...he came in to find me sat at the table with a glass of passion fruit squash and 4 biscuits on a plate....I still have to have the pineapple...maybe lunch tomorrow! The afternoon was spent trying to update my antivirus...but the internet is very unreliable and had a tendency to cut out...so I haven’t actually managed that yet...maybe in Kigali at the weekend. We had a early dinner, Ruairi went for a drink with Enok, while I stayed at home and watched yet more LOST...I do love it but is does freak me out a little bit...I then had to watch South Park before I headed to bed!
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