Title: Camilla Gore (
Rwanda)
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The final post! - 09/Aug/2012 10:33 - 4271 days ago
So now I've been back home in England for two months I think its time to muster up the courage to write the final post as C...
Culture and the classroom - 05/Aug/2012 18:35 - 4275 days ago
For the last three weeks I have been doing some work teaching English at a summer school for 9-14 year olds held at a very prest...
The transition curve - 03/Jul/2012 11:46 - 4308 days ago
According to vso, when volunteers return home they experience excitement, followed by anxiety and pining, apathy and depression,...
Home through a new lens - 19/Jun/2012 22:37 - 4322 days ago
So I have been back in Somerset, Englandfor a few days now. It is the summer but it still feels cold. The days seem very long af...
Leaving on a jet plane, don’t know when I’ll be back again.... - 14/Jun/2012 09:26 - 4327 days ago
So I know this is the exact same title of a post that I wrote 17 months ago on my last night in the UK before I embarked on this...
Scenes from Butare - 14/Jun/2012 09:25 - 4327 days ago
My penultimate night in Rwanda was spent back in Butare, my base for the last month or so of traveling around. I’ve always str...
A trip to the lake on the vomit comet - 14/Jun/2012 09:20 - 4327 days ago
My last Rwandan adventure had to be to the lovely lake Kivu. So after the High Commissioner’s party I braved a ride on the vom...
The Queen’s Jubilee - 14/Jun/2012 09:15 - 4327 days ago
Ok so while we didn’t get a four day weekend here in Rwanda, we did still get to go to a party. The Queen’s Jubilee party is...
The fresh mountain air of Gasarenda city - 06/Jun/2012 20:58 - 4335 days ago
I couldn’t go home without one last trip to visit my friend Kathy who lives up in the mountains near Nyungwe forest. I ne...
A trip down East - 03/Jun/2012 08:16 - 4338 days ago
I have spent the last week in the east of the Eastern Province visiting and working with my friend Jen at TTC Zaza. I couldn’t...
Moving out and Moving on - 20/May/2012 16:21 - 4352 days ago
The past week has been a busy one for me. The first event was that I moved out of Nzige and into Butare. Me moving attracted a c...
The amazing goodbye - 10/May/2012 22:35 - 4362 days ago
On Wednesday it was time to say my official goodbye at the TTC, even if I did sneak back in for a couple of hours today. So I go...
The kindness of sisters - 10/May/2012 21:26 - 4362 days ago
I am about to leave Nzige. I will be in Rwanda for another month before going back home, but I will be out and about doing curri...
Wonderful work - 10/May/2012 20:20 - 4362 days ago
This past week has been interesting for work. I’ve been trying to show Julius some of our child centred learning so he has bee...
Everyday life in Rwanda - 06/May/2012 08:14 - 4366 days ago
As I find myself beginning to prepare to leave Rwanda in mid-June, I have found myself starting to think‘This is the last time...
Lake Mugesera - 29/Apr/2012 12:37 - 4373 days ago
Yesterday I finally got the chance to do something I’ve wanted to do for a very long time, but never quite made it. I got to w...
A new volunteer arrives in middle earth... - 29/Apr/2012 11:59 - 4373 days ago
I have been living alone for more than 15 months now in my small rural village, but this week all of that changed. Because I am ...
Genocide Memorial - 29/Apr/2012 11:40 - 4373 days ago
April is the saddest month for Rwandan people because it is when the genocide began, some 18 years ago now. It is during this mo...
Living it up in Butare - 29/Apr/2012 11:27 - 4373 days ago
It’s good to be back posting on my blog after a month of absence. It’s not that I’ve not been doing anything, quite the op...
David Hasselhoff and marking in the dark - 29/Mar/2012 21:13 - 4404 days ago
The T-shirts that find their way to Rwanda are fantastic. They certainly give me something to smile about when I’m crushed on ...
Cute kids and St Patrick - 28/Mar/2012 16:46 - 4405 days ago
Just before my friend Tammy left Rwanda she invited me to spend a couple of hours at the school where she had helped at for the ...
Rain in Rwanda - 21/Mar/2012 19:39 - 4412 days ago
So it seems the rainy season is pretty much here. The signs that it’s about to be a vicious rainstorm are as follows: It gets ...
The Journey of a card from Africa - 18/Mar/2012 19:45 - 4415 days ago
Last week I ventured out to a card making enterprise on the outskirts of Kigali, for the second time, and on this occasion I act...
Village visit - 14/Mar/2012 15:01 - 4419 days ago
When our car arrived at Cyeza, a small village perched precariously on a hillside, we were warmly greeted by the women of the Ab...
International Women’s day - 08/Mar/2012 16:46 - 4425 days ago
Ok so I hate to admit it but when I got a text message from my principal telling me to go to the stadium for a ceremony for inte...
The Akanzu vs TTC Bicumbi football match - 07/Mar/2012 19:53 - 4426 days ago
Every now and then the huge Group Scolaire School next door to the TTC, GS Akanzu, which has about 3000 students from P1 (a...
The strangest museum... - 04/Mar/2012 07:44 - 4429 days ago
So for reasons I will reveal to you later, I am doing a lot of research in Kigali at the moment. One place I needed to check out...
The road trip - 04/Mar/2012 07:35 - 4429 days ago
Last weekend we went on a road trip to see Kathy, a volunteer who lives of the edge of Nyungwe forest national park. Mark and Ta...
Camilla and the Kamikaze lizards - 28/Feb/2012 19:52 - 4434 days ago
I have a fairly tumultuous relationship with the lizards in Rwanda. I do find them quite cute from a distance. They have their b...
Buses and donuts - 28/Feb/2012 19:50 - 4434 days ago
The other day I was the only woman on the bus. It was just me and 18 men. And predictably I attracted quite a bit of attention. ...
Reflections - 28/Feb/2012 19:43 - 4434 days ago
It’s been a while since I wrote my blog. It’s not that nothing has been happening...well sometimes it feels that way and the...
The end of the drought - 16/Feb/2012 19:27 - 4446 days ago
I have been without water for nearly 2 weeks. It affects you in more ways that you could imagine. You put off the washing (other...
A wonderful Rwandan-Irish wedding - 12/Feb/2012 15:38 - 4450 days ago
Today was another great weekend because a got to see a friend and fellow vso volunteer, Brigid, get married to her partner Patri...
The student goat - 08/Feb/2012 16:26 - 4454 days ago
Today was a first for me in my teaching career. Just as I was getting into describing why‘give me paper’ is an impolite way ...
Beautiful Burundi - 06/Feb/2012 18:33 - 4456 days ago
It has to be said that Burundi is not generally considered to be a popular holiday destination. Recent civil conflict has ruled ...
The case of the disappearing bus park - 31/Jan/2012 17:07 - 4462 days ago
A strange thing about Rwanda is the speed at which big things can disappear. For example in Kigali the one and only post office ...
A muddle of muzungus - 29/Jan/2012 08:06 - 4464 days ago
Life has gone full circle and I have just finished welcoming all of the new January volunteers for vso. I can hardly believe tha...
Applause on the dirt track - 09/Jan/2012 21:14 - 4484 days ago
Today was a first for me. It was the first time (and probably the only time!) where I received a round of applause from a group ...
Back to Nzige - 08/Jan/2012 15:33 - 4485 days ago
I’m typing this from my humble bedroom in Nzige which apart from some more damp on the walls and bits of debris from the ceili...
Christmas time and Rwamagana banana wine... - 27/Dec/2011 18:41 - 4497 days ago
Well its nearly a month since my last posting. I can hardly believe it but I've been back in the UK for more than a month now. W...
Camilla’s eight signs of reverse culture shock - 30/Nov/2011 14:13 - 4524 days ago
So now I’m back in the UK for a visit (I am going back to Rwanda, I haven’t finished yet!) I thought I’d write about all t...
Camilla in Zanzibar - 30/Nov/2011 11:07 - 4524 days ago
I was very excited about going to Zanzibar, even the name of this tiny Tanzanian island sounds exotic and cool. We flew into Dar...
A time for reflection - 11/Nov/2011 22:16 - 4543 days ago
As I prepare for my holiday in Zanzibar and then my journey back to the UK for a Christmas visit, I can’t help but reflect on ...
From Romania with love - 10/Nov/2011 13:16 - 4544 days ago
Yesterday I went to pick up a parcel that despite very clearly having Rwanda marked on it, got sent to Romania instead. I though...
Starbucks in Rwanda?! - 10/Nov/2011 12:48 - 4544 days ago
This week I heard a rumour that Starbucks exists secretly on the top floor of the vso building in Kigali. I must admit it had ne...
A school trip with a difference... - 28/Oct/2011 20:49 - 4557 days ago
Yesterday was the TTC trip to Akagera national park and we were supposed to be leaving at the ungodly hour of 4.30am! Now those ...
Party time at the TTC - 25/Oct/2011 16:58 - 4560 days ago
So exams are pretty much finished and attention turns to the end of the year celebrations and having fun. In the TTC each class ...
Sharing food, sharing lives...a typical meal in Rwanda - 16/Oct/2011 22:55 - 4569 days ago
It is difficult to think of a social gathering in Rwanda that does not involve the ubiquitous brochettes (goat kebabs) and chips...
The muzungu princess and the toad, a modern day fairytale from Rwanda - 16/Oct/2011 21:39 - 4569 days ago
Once upon a time there was a muzungu princess who lived far far away in the kingdom of Nzige, the land which time and public tra...
Fire in a Nido tin and other tales of domesticity - 10/Oct/2011 20:54 - 4575 days ago
For various reasons I’ve done all of my own housework for the last week. Now washing dishes and clothes by hand is hard work b...
Kigali nights - 10/Oct/2011 20:21 - 4575 days ago
Before coming to Rwanda I thought I’d be living like a nun. I thought I’d never be able to drink. There would be no parties,...
National teacher’s day - 05/Oct/2011 16:31 - 4580 days ago
Today was the‘day of teachers’ which ironically meant that I did no teaching. Instead we went to a big district wide celebra...
People come and people go, but oh how I will miss them so! - 04/Oct/2011 18:59 - 4581 days ago
One of the hardest things about doing vso is that you have to say a lot of goodbyes. This is especially true if you are a mad fo...
I am famous - 27/Sep/2011 15:28 - 4588 days ago
Yesterday was a first for me. I was on the radio! BBC Bristol rang me all the way from the UK to talk to me about my work with v...
When the unusual becomes usual - 25/Sep/2011 21:21 - 4590 days ago
Just recently I’ve become aware of how things that previously would have seemed really weird now don’t. For example, I was o...
Scare birds, wobbly women and badly drawn henna - 23/Sep/2011 11:10 - 4592 days ago
This week has been a week of creativity. First of all I have made umpteen bird paper bag puppets with my senior 4 students. They...
4 women and a volcano - 18/Sep/2011 14:31 - 4597 days ago
After a night of rain me and 3 other vso vols decided to go for it and climb our way up Bisoke, the second highest volcano in th...
‘Sent from God’ - 07/Sep/2011 15:21 - 4608 days ago
I got a new name today, from a Catholic priest no less. He decided it was time I had a Rwandan name on account of the fact that ...
The king’s bed - 04/Sep/2011 18:14 - 4611 days ago
Over the weekend I visited the King’s palace museum in Nyanza. This complex had a replica of a traditional king’s house and ...
Dirt roads are like ski runs... - 30/Aug/2011 16:27 - 4616 days ago
Yesterday I took Steven and Mary’s friend, Helen, out to the TTC for the day. When describing what the road was like for moto ...
Boredom and bookcases - 24/Aug/2011 21:08 - 4622 days ago
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that returning to work has been a shock to the system. It seems over the past few days that whi...
Surprises - 22/Aug/2011 19:00 - 4624 days ago
Well today I found out something very interesting. We might be getting an American Peace Corp volunteer at the TTC, starting in ...
Giraffes, gorillas and good times - 20/Aug/2011 18:46 - 4626 days ago
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been a tourist in Rwanda showing my parents around. As I’ve said before, it makes you look...
Camilla's parents in rwanda..... - 07/Aug/2011 17:04 - 4639 days ago
A couple of days ago my parents arrived in Rwanda and showing new people around the country does make you look at things with fr...
The wanderer returns - 02/Aug/2011 15:37 - 4644 days ago
I am the nomad of vso Rwanda. I have seen more volunteer’s houses than I’ve had goat brochettes. I’ve shared a bed with mo...
Toilets again... - 26/Jul/2011 16:36 - 4651 days ago
I apologise for going back to my preoccupation with toilets but something wildly exciting has happened in the last few days in N...
Endoftermitus - 20/Jul/2011 21:44 - 4657 days ago
As we get fully into exam time and marking I have started to get a bad case of endoftermitus. The symptoms of this disease inclu...
Under an African sky - 18/Jul/2011 17:23 - 4659 days ago
I spent my 6 month anniversary of being in Rwanda looking at this beautiful sky. Nothing can match an African sunset. All of tha...
The day the tables came - 13/Jul/2011 21:02 - 4664 days ago
Today, finally, the long awaited tables and benches came. Now at last I will be able to teach in the resource centre. The tables...
Are you getting with the culture? - 12/Jul/2011 19:57 - 4665 days ago
Every now and then people ask me a question that really makes me stop and think. Today was one such day and the asker of this ep...
People watching at the DRC border - 11/Jul/2011 16:28 - 4666 days ago
Today I spent a whole hour in the Rwandan border town of Gisenyi watching people cross the border into the DRC. We won’t go in...
Cowboy hats and steak for breakfast - 05/Jul/2011 22:02 - 4672 days ago
Its official. The wild west does exist in Rwanda. Most countries in the world seem to have a cowboy hat wearing wild west town s...
When the lights go out... - 29/Jun/2011 18:55 - 4678 days ago
Well I’m going to type this quickly because I want to have enough power left in my laptop battery to watch another episode of ...
Big Ben - 28/Jun/2011 21:34 - 4679 days ago
I know its a strange thing to say but my life has been changed by a giant water bucket. He is big and green and my most prized p...
I’m looking at the man in the mirror... - 26/Jun/2011 20:53 - 4681 days ago
Well quite a bit has happened since my last post. For starters Darryl, another vso volunteer who works in the field of Special E...
Two out of three ain’t bad... - 21/Jun/2011 18:22 - 4686 days ago
Since arriving in Rwanda I’ve developed a pre-occupation with toilets. I know, its a sign of an enquiring mind gone too far, b...
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness... - 20/Jun/2011 11:50 - 4687 days ago
In the usual lastminute.com fashion on Friday morning at 8.10 I found out I was going on a school trip at 8.30 across the ...
White coats, mice and general hysteria - 14/Jun/2011 19:34 - 4693 days ago
Today I finally relented and conceded to teach my lessons in the TTC wearing a white lab coat. If you can’t beat them join the...
The TRC’s first event - 11/Jun/2011 10:41 - 4696 days ago
Yesterday was a monumental, landmark day for the TRC. It had its first official event, Steven and Mary came down from the distri...
Who’s sleeping at the muzungu’s house? - 07/Jun/2011 14:04 - 4700 days ago
Today I was once again the main topic of gossip in the village. Its funny how you can tell even in a language you can’t unders...
A day in the life of a TTC methodology and resources trainer - 03/Jun/2011 16:17 - 4704 days ago
At our TTC volunteer gathering on Monday we discussed describing a day in the TTC for the new volunteers. It is different for al...
The miraculous day at work - 01/Jun/2011 15:46 - 4706 days ago
Ok so I know that ever since I’ve started this job I’ve been constantly harping on about the challenges, bit like a broken r...
Internet conferences with no internet - 31/May/2011 18:55 - 4707 days ago
I’ve just had the most fantastic couple of days staying with Lindsey and the other TTC volunteers at TTC Save in the south of ...
Conferences, conferences and yet more conferences! - 28/May/2011 17:23 - 4710 days ago
This past week I have been at the annual vso education sector conference in Kigali. It has been a busy time of days from 8.30 un...
Late nights and long runs - 23/May/2011 16:22 - 4715 days ago
I’m feeling sorry for myself and its all self inflicted. My legs ache, my stomach aches, my head did ache although its no...
Characters of Nzige town - 19/May/2011 20:06 - 4719 days ago
Ok so calling it a town is a bit of a stretch but it sounds more poetic. There are a number of people I’m starting to encounte...
The candlelight disco bucket shower - 17/May/2011 15:49 - 4721 days ago
The light went out yet again in my outside‘shower’ room just as I was about to pour the first cup of water over my head. Thi...
4 months in Rwanda - 15/May/2011 15:20 - 4723 days ago
Today marks the end of four months in Rwanda. As I am about to start my fifth month I realise that before I know it I will have ...
The four carb combo at the restaurant of the sisters - 12/May/2011 18:54 - 4726 days ago
Ok in all honesty I don’t think this post will be nearly as exciting to anyone else but I made an amazing discovery today. The...
A fun day in class - 11/May/2011 17:15 - 4727 days ago
Today I had my teaching practice class, the lovely senior five science and mathematics for their weekly methodology lesson. I kn...
Revenge of the birds - 10/May/2011 17:54 - 4728 days ago
I did a bad thing a couple weeks ago. I got fed up of the birds which have called my resource centre home since before I arrived...
10 signs you’ve been in Rwanda a while... - 08/May/2011 11:40 - 4730 days ago
1) You speak 3 languages on your walk to work and think nothing of it. You offer up your hand to anyone and everyone who wants t...
The day the muzungu ran again - 06/May/2011 16:50 - 4732 days ago
Today I ran in the stadium for a second time. It was so much better! While there was still a group of young men staring at me si...
The day the muzungu ran... - 03/May/2011 19:37 - 4735 days ago
Ok I can’t lie. My first run round the stadium was even worse than I expected. Literally the whole village stared at me! It wa...
My first bilingual lesson - 02/May/2011 19:17 - 4736 days ago
Well I never thought I would ever end up teaching through another language in just three months of being overseas but today I fi...
Land of hope and glory - 01/May/2011 16:07 - 4737 days ago
Wow what a fun weekend! It started off with me making union jack flags in my resource centre because I couldn’t find any stude...
Camilla’s continued attempts at trilingualism - 28/Apr/2011 19:33 - 4740 days ago
Ok I have to confess that I still haven’t braved the running track yet. One of the new Ugandan tutors has had a great suggesti...
Oh dear God, what have I just agreed to do?! - 26/Apr/2011 15:37 - 4742 days ago
Sometimes I really do wonder if living alone in a small village has already started to tip me over the edge of reason. It seems ...
Lounging by the lake - 24/Apr/2011 08:24 - 4744 days ago
My last instalment of tales from Uganda will be brief. Mostly because the last place we visited involved doing nothing. Nothing ...
High on a hill was a lonely goatherd Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo - 23/Apr/2011 18:15 - 4745 days ago
Back to tales from Uganda! Around Fort Portal we saw some lovely scenery, but by far my favourite thing we saw were the black an...
Camilla and Lindsey’s joint 28th Birthday - 21/Apr/2011 05:40 - 4747 days ago
I’m going to take a break from recounting my tales from Uganda (I am back in Rwanda now, just hopelessly behind with my blog!)...
Arriving with the mail on the post bus - 15/Apr/2011 13:07 - 4753 days ago
We left Kampala by hitching a ride with the post bus to Fort Portal. It was its first outing in over a year and it was donned wi...
More tales from Kampala - 14/Apr/2011 18:42 - 4754 days ago
The jamming session at the National Theatre was great. We heard Coldplay done African style and Ugandan country and western. Kat...
Hi from Kampala - 04/Apr/2011 15:31 - 4764 days ago
Kathy and me arrived safely in Kampala, the capital of Uganda a couple of days ago. Kathy has arrived with her house on her back...
Hand sanitiser in a Waragi bottle and other packing tips from the spatially challenged - 31/Mar/2011 17:18 - 4768 days ago
Tomorrow I’m departing for Kigali en route to Uganda for a couple of weeks. Its the TTC holidays and genocide memorial week ba...
Je faire du promenade - 30/Mar/2011 15:52 - 4769 days ago
Well I was feeling a right dunce today after adding up lots of exam scores, doing it wrong and having to do it again, told to ap...
The wonders of language - 29/Mar/2011 17:44 - 4770 days ago
This week I have been treated to some truly brilliant answers for‘why do you want to become a teacher?’ on the S4 exam. They...
Eat, pray and read hello magazine - 27/Mar/2011 19:24 - 4772 days ago
This weekend was all about repairing my soul. It was like a mini version of the book‘eat pray love’ but sadly without the lo...
A few more photos - 23/Mar/2011 14:51 - 4776 days ago
So here is the outside of the TTCAnd the entrance. There are no students lounging about because they are all doing exams, poor t...
Out and about - 23/Mar/2011 14:40 - 4776 days ago
By popular request I've decided to put a few more photos up of my surroundings. Soon I will psyche myself up to go for a proper ...
Culinary Inspiration from the most unlikely of places... - 22/Mar/2011 15:19 - 4777 days ago
When I was searching for no bake no fridge few ingredients recipes I came across a recipe for Prison brownies. A bloke named Ric...
Four days of green - 20/Mar/2011 20:28 - 4779 days ago
Well it has been all about green things recently. Green cards, green gardens and St Partricks day...When I found out that I wasn...
Boney M - 15/Mar/2011 16:49 - 4784 days ago
That strange seventies pop band Boney M have a habit of following me wherever I go and I’m not sure I like it. Its actually qu...
Vegetables, pedicures and charity shop karma - 13/Mar/2011 20:56 - 4786 days ago
Ok so this week was a bad week in the kitchen. The market was bereft of food, so much so that it was a struggle to even get bana...
Our new exhibit is called‘umuzungu’ - 11/Mar/2011 14:17 - 4788 days ago
There are large glass windows all on one side of my marvellous TRC, which is great because it makes it nice and light and airy. ...
The day of reckoning - 09/Mar/2011 22:11 - 4790 days ago
Today heralded my first official visit by vso personnel to check on my progress in my placement so far. As you can imagine, as s...
All the small things - 06/Mar/2011 12:34 - 4793 days ago
As I head towards my two month anniversary of being in Rwanda next week, I think its timely to do a little progress check and re...
OMG I lost my sense of humour (temporarily you’ll be relieved to know!) - 03/Mar/2011 16:43 - 4796 days ago
It was probably a bad idea from the start but I have always wanted to teach a lesson‘under the big tree’. ‘Under the big t...
The bottle top thief - 01/Mar/2011 16:30 - 4798 days ago
Ok I it seems my new job involves me scrabbling around in the dirt picking up discarded bottle tops. When it rained earlier toda...
Homemade cookies and ice cream - 28/Feb/2011 21:06 - 4799 days ago
I’ve had another fabulous weekend of visiting other volunteers. This time I visited Cathy and Louise, some volunteers who have...
Its not right but its ok... - 25/Feb/2011 19:36 - 4802 days ago
Today was an exciting day. I finally moved into the TRC (Teacher's Resource Centre). There are still birds roosting in the corne...
Too many tomatoes and an introduction to Nollywood - 23/Feb/2011 19:31 - 4804 days ago
Well every day brings new challenges for me. My house guy had to leave early today which meant I had to brave the market myself ...
The beauty is in the journey... - 22/Feb/2011 10:33 - 4805 days ago
This weekend after eating African Chinese food and listening to 90’s throwback music in Kigali with Mark and Tammy, I visited ...
I am linguistically challenged - 17/Feb/2011 17:16 - 4810 days ago
Today was tough in class. I definitely don’t think senior 4 got me. And before I knew it asseyez-vous and ecoutez bien (almost...
Textbooks and chicken fantasies - 16/Feb/2011 14:19 - 4811 days ago
Textbooks are quite new to me in my teaching career. The UK early years brigade would have had me hung, drawn and quartered if I...
An inspector calls - 15/Feb/2011 15:13 - 4812 days ago
Well as if life couldn’t get any stranger for me at the moment, we had the Rwandese version of Ofsted here today! I’ve come ...
My first time in a police car... - 13/Feb/2011 12:01 - 4814 days ago
Well it seems that here in Rwanda the one thing you can expect is the unexpected. Had a good morning on Friday teaching at the T...
I am cursed with motos - 10/Feb/2011 20:39 - 4817 days ago
Yesterday I finished work earlier than expected and so I ventured into Kigali to buy stationery and do chores for work such as p...
Photos at long last! - 08/Feb/2011 21:33 - 4819 days ago
At the VSO quiz during in country training with some of the other VSO Rwanda volunteersKigali, the capital of RwandaAnother shot...
Will snowman markers shorten my life?! - 08/Feb/2011 16:24 - 4819 days ago
I’ve spent the afternoon planning lessons and making teaching resources. The only marker pens you can get here are called ‘s...
Je suis fatigue... - 07/Feb/2011 17:16 - 4820 days ago
Feel somewhat tired today. I think it was because I spent a fair few hours in the classroom and I’ve begun to forget what that...
Pizza never tasted so good! - 06/Feb/2011 11:59 - 4821 days ago
Yesterday marked my three week anniversary since arriving from the UK. I can’t quite believe its only been three weeks since I...
The first lesson and making friends with the kids - 03/Feb/2011 15:40 - 4824 days ago
I survived teaching my first lesson at the college. Not my finest hour as a teacher if I’m honest but I learned more in that h...
Taking my first tumble... - 01/Feb/2011 17:03 - 4826 days ago
Today was‘heroes day’ which means no work for me! So after waiting for the rain to subside I decided to visit Steven and Mar...
Cooking something edible - 31/Jan/2011 21:17 - 4827 days ago
Today was momentous because for the first time in 5 days I have managed to cook something I wanted to eat on my hotplate. Its no...
A weekend away - 30/Jan/2011 16:48 - 4828 days ago
I became very adventurous this weekend and I ventured out of the village for the first time to go to Christine’s birthday part...
On lab coats and being mobbed - 28/Jan/2011 15:58 - 4830 days ago
Well an interesting day to say the least. I spent most of the day at the TTC, I think I will have to leave the bank account open...
Introductions and setting up home. - 27/Jan/2011 20:14 - 4831 days ago
I tried to introduce myself in Kinyarwanda to 400 students today...they laughed at me, but in a friendly way. I even got a clap!...
The only Umuzungu (whitey) in the village - 26/Jan/2011 19:49 - 4832 days ago
Today was a crazy day. I have finally arrived in Bicumbi, which is to be my home for the next 2 years. When I arrived at my hous...
I haggled for a spoon in Kinyarwanda - 23/Jan/2011 18:56 - 4835 days ago
Today was our‘rest day’ although it was anything but restful really. We went out to Kimironko market where my major achievem...
An emotional day - 21/Jan/2011 21:02 - 4837 days ago
I can’t believe its Friday already and I’ve been here for 6 days. I leave for my placement next Wednesday and I still feel l...
A trip down fabric alley - 19/Jan/2011 20:22 - 4839 days ago
I finally had a good night’s sleep last night which was such a relief! I know I said I wasn’t worried in my last post but th...
The training begins - 17/Jan/2011 20:19 - 4841 days ago
We started our‘in country training’ today and there was lots to learn, such as how to light a kerosene stove without burning...
Hi from Rwanda! - 16/Jan/2011 14:36 - 4842 days ago
Hi everyone, I arrived safely in Kigali yesterday evening and got the best welcome at Kigali airport ever! Had a big hug, lots o...
Leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again... - 14/Jan/2011 22:17 - 4844 days ago
The bags are packed, the jabs are done and most of the goodbyes have been said, I'm off to the airport in less than 4 hours and ...
Only 5 days to go! - 10/Jan/2011 18:58 - 4848 days ago
The time to leave is nearly upon me and I have been busy sorting out all of the little things that seem to take so long lik...
The perils of packing - 30/Dec/2010 19:31 - 4859 days ago
I have finally amassed a heap of stuff to take with me and I'm wondering a) how on earth is it going to fit into 2 bags? b) is i...
I shed a few tears... - 20/Dec/2010 20:14 - 4869 days ago
Friday was my last day working at Hannah More Infant School and I spent most of the day playing in the snow with my lo...
Skills for Working in Development and My first Christmas cake! - 11/Dec/2010 00:51 - 4878 days ago
Well what a week it has been. I spent 4 days doing a vso course called 'skills for working in development' which was very insten...
On motorbikes... - 26/Nov/2010 16:48 - 4893 days ago
The arrival of my motorbike helmet to take out to Rwanda with me has got me thinking - how do you stay on a motorbike wearing a ...
Feeling inspired :-) - 19/Nov/2010 19:24 - 4900 days ago
I was searching through things about Rwanda on the internet and I came across a really inspiring initiative called Project Rwand...
Two months today I will be living here! - 15/Nov/2010 21:24 - 4904 days ago
Thats right, in two short months I will be on a plane to my new home for two years. I am really excited but there is still such ...
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