Title: Geri Skeen (
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Home with handicrafts - 16/Oct/2011 13:40 - 4799 days ago
I arrived back in the UK in mid-July laden with handicrafts, all of which I’m pleased to say I have managed to sell, both to f...
Saying goodbye - 14/Oct/2011 17:37 - 4801 days ago
People were very kind over my leaving in July. Work held a leaving lunch for me. Several people stood up and said some...
Kibuye - 14/Oct/2011 15:54 - 4801 days ago
Only an hour and a half bus ride from Gitarama is Kibuye, a village by the beautiful Lake Kivu; the perfect place for a peaceful...
Waking up in Rwanda - 25/Sep/2011 15:23 - 4820 days ago
Dawn from my bedroom window:...
Bits and pieces - 25/Sep/2011 11:29 - 4820 days ago
I’ve got a few odd photos which might interest you.Below are two men sawing hardwood planks by hand using a two-person saw.&nb...
Baby Nice - 25/Sep/2011 11:19 - 4820 days ago
If you’ve taken an interest in Nice, you will be pleased to hear that by the time I left Rwanda, she weighed 2.4kg and was app...
Nyungwe Forest - 25/Sep/2011 11:11 - 4820 days ago
Everyone’s heard of Rwanda’s mountain gorillas, but Nyungwe Forest is a well-kept secret. It is the largest remaining m...
Historically Marginalised People - 11/Jul/2011 08:59 - 4896 days ago
YWCA has begun a street theatre project aimed at changing attitudes towards historically marginalised people in Rwanda. Thi...
Weekend at Rachel’s by Lake Burera - 06/Jul/2011 04:08 - 4901 days ago
Rachel is a volunteer who lives in the North of Rwanda, near Lake Burera and in sight of volcanoes– yes, the same volcanoes in...
Luxury in Rwanda - 06/Jul/2011 03:56 - 4901 days ago
I’ve worked out what I need to do occasionally for a bit of R&R. It’s to take a swim in the Mille Collines hotel po...
Sunday visit to Hyacinth - 06/Jul/2011 03:44 - 4901 days ago
Felicien is our night guard, and Hyacinth’s son. I wrote about their family some months back. Hyacinth and her husba...
Gorillas - 28/Jun/2011 09:46 - 4909 days ago
Not sure why I’m reluctant to write up our gorilla visit on this blog. Maybe because it was so extraordinary to be doing ...
Life goes on - 20/Jun/2011 12:48 - 4917 days ago
Apologies for lack of entries. I guess most things about my life here have started to seem routine to me now and...
Immaculee and baby again - 06/May/2011 10:38 - 4962 days ago
Went to visit Immaculee and baby Nice again. Immaculee had been wrong about the weight gain at two days. But now at si...
Handicrafts - 05/May/2011 14:22 - 4963 days ago
You might like to see some of the handicrafts YWCA members make. Here is Donata, the YWCA cleaner, modelling a bag made fr...
Immaculee's baby - 02/May/2011 06:36 - 4966 days ago
A young woman I know, Immaculee, has just given birth. The baby was born at just under six and a half months. Here a...
Mushubati Mountain and Hyachinth's family - 29/Mar/2011 07:43 - 5000 days ago
I set off for the hamlet of Gifumba, remembering to take my camera as I met a woman there last week, Hyacinth, who asked me to b...
What Rwanda does well - 28/Mar/2011 08:42 - 5001 days ago
Here are some of the ways in which Rwanda out-shines the UK:· The proportion of ...
Transport - 28/Mar/2011 08:40 - 5001 days ago
I have now tried out several modes of transport in Rwanda. The buses vary from cramped mini-buses to more comfortable buses...
Lake Kivu (second part– hot springs) - 15/Mar/2011 13:51 - 5014 days ago
From the market, we walked to some hot springs bubbling up on the edge of the lake:People take advantage of the hot water to do ...
Lake Kivu (first part - fishermen) - 15/Mar/2011 11:05 - 5014 days ago
Just back from a night at Kibuye on Lake Kivu. We took a boat to an island with just one building, a restaurant, on it.&nbs...
International Women's Day - 13/Mar/2011 14:45 - 5016 days ago
There was some confusion about whether Women’s Day was a holiday here. The same confusion as on election days. Gener...
'What do you miss?' - 13/Mar/2011 14:42 - 5016 days ago
I phoned Jenny in England and she asked me what I missed. I couldn’t think of anything really, but said ‘Radio 4’.&nb...
Walk to Kapgayi - 26/Feb/2011 11:52 - 5031 days ago
My house-mate Julia showed me how to make a movie. Here it is; it’s about the walk we went on together which I wrote abou...
Gnome Survives Hailstorm - 26/Feb/2011 11:30 - 5031 days ago
This one is for Alis. Since being found face down following a previous downpour, gnome has been firmly planted in place.&nb...
Ikinyarwanda - 26/Feb/2011 09:51 - 5031 days ago
The one good thing about ikinyarwanda is that it is the first language of all Rwandans (except some of those who grew up in exil...
Successful trip to market - 19/Feb/2011 10:11 - 5038 days ago
Made my first solo trip to buy food at the market today. Till now, I’ve shopped at the tiny shops between my home and wor...
Town Crier - 17/Feb/2011 19:22 - 5040 days ago
We have a man who comes round, usually between 5am and 5.45am, six days a week. He does a drum roll outside our house to ge...
Work - 13/Feb/2011 15:37 - 5044 days ago
I realise I haven’t written anything here about my work at YWCA, though I have sent some of you emails about work. Work h...
Another rainy afternoon - 13/Feb/2011 15:18 - 5044 days ago
Hi everyone. Julia and I went on a great walk yesterday, Saturday, morning. She’d been shown a path through the cult...
Guitar buying in Kigali - 11/Feb/2011 18:29 - 5046 days ago
Rachel who works for VSO in Kigali phoned her friend Masimamgo, who runs a guitar school, and he offered to take me to buy a gui...
Birthday in Rwanda - 11/Feb/2011 18:26 - 5046 days ago
I really enjoyed my birthday this week. I came home at lunchtime– as it’s only a five minute walk, I always do unless w...
View from my garden - 30/Jan/2011 13:53 - 5058 days ago
Here are some slightly better pictures of the world beyond my garden wall - I stood on a chair to take them! Notice the te...
First walk in the countryside - 30/Jan/2011 10:11 - 5058 days ago
I’ve been out for a two hour walk. Closer to African pace than my usual speed as it’s like a hot English Summer’s day...
Home Sweet Home - 30/Jan/2011 09:18 - 5058 days ago
I am living in a five-bedroomed house with two other VSO volunteers, Rose and Julia, in Gitarama, Rwanda’s second town. O...
Kimironko Market - 23/Jan/2011 19:33 - 5065 days ago
Some of us went to Kigali’s main market today. See the lady on the left here carrying a basket on her head:The fruit here...
First impressions - 21/Jan/2011 19:29 - 5067 days ago
I’m impressed! The country is surprisingly together, considering it’s one of the poorest in the world and considering a...
Preparations - 12/Dec/2010 18:27 - 5107 days ago
A VSO trainer advised me not to do technical preparation but to make contacts and 'go rested.' So here I am at Flic a...
Handicrafts and gorillas - 08/Dec/2010 20:39 - 5111 days ago
I'm off to Rwanda on 14 January with VSO for six months, maybe longer. For many people in the UK, Rwanda is almost synonym...
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