One year!!!
on Tina in Rwanda (Rwanda), 06/Sep/2009 14:09, 34 days ago
Please note that VSO is in no way connected with or responsible for the content, comments and observations in this blog: these are solely my own in a personal capacity.Hi,it is the 6. of September and that means I did fly out exactly a year ago.That was my plane: 21.20 to Addis AbabaSo many things have happened since then. Good things and bad things:Ups:- meeting amazing people- making good new friends- working in a really rewarding job- making all sorts of contacts with other NGOs, Unicef, etc....- getting an understanding for sustainable development work- running work shops- working alongside teachers- having fun lessons with the children- riding on a motor bike taxi on the shittiest dirt roads in the middle of absolutely nowhere- shopping on a market- travelling Rwanda and Uganda- learning from a nation that has gone through a Genocide- seeing an incredibe beautiful country- and so many moreand downs:- being covered in rat poo and pee after trying to wash the draws where she lived in....thanks tothe water pressure everything splashed up on me- having the biggest spider ever next to me, yes it had huge jaws and had legs like baby fingers- experiencing an earth quake (5.2 on scale with its Epi Centre in the Kivu area)- having flees and bedbugs and being bitten as there would not be a tomorrow- having a broken door for 2 month and therefore having no door for two month- having an invasion of about 100 bees (just yesterday)- needing to fly home with a bad Kidney infection- being hassled- being mugged twice- and.......a few other thingsAll of us are asking the same questions: Where has the year gone?????This year has been incredible good, challenging, hard, amazing, bad, great, fascinating, rediculous, cool, sad, brilliant,..... and fast.I am looking forward to hopefully doing my Masters in 'Development' in London from September next year on. I will see.Take care,xxx Tina