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Thursday 17th September 2009

Today started much as every other day does...same routine as always...but after being in the office for a while...they informed us that the generator had run out of fuel...so they would be turning it off...oh well...we went home for a early lunch, to find our landlord there...I think he is doing up the rooms at the back of the house where Alexandre lives...I had my lunch...and went for a short snooze...I woke up in a mad panic, thinking I was late...only to realise that at the grand age of 21....I am unable to read the time properly...idiot! Anyway...the afternoon was whiled away in the district office...which is my new favourite place...purely for the fact that there is a 'proper' toilet...ok so you ahve to hold the door handle the whole time as the door doesnt stay shut..and you have to flush it with a bucket of water...but it is made of Rwanda's (actually it probably isnt!) porciline...so I dont care! When everyone went to their english lessons...and the generator was turned off...I decided to make my way home...when I got to the football pitch...I was followed by a group of children...aged between 5 and 9...they followed me home...when I got back...they were told off (I think) by a man in shirt and tie...I went into my house and thought nothng of it...I was just getting changed when I could here Mzungu being shouted over and over...and it sounded VERY close...I looked out of my window to find the little blighters in my garden!!! not the front garden...oh no...they had made their way through the gate into my back garden...I was cross!!!! I told them to go away and they just kept on...it wasnt until Alexandre came back that they finally went....grrrrrrrrrr...the rest of the evening was taken up pretty much with just being cross!!!!