A few people have been asking me what the situation is like here in Rwanda, so here is a complete update of the situation to this day.
The country in itself is calm, most of it is classified as level 0 security by the UN, which means it is the safest it can get. The only [...]
Entrée de octobre 2008
octobre 23, 2008
Security update
octobre 17, 2008
One in the crowd
It happens regularly. Not systematically but often enough to make me right about it. You arrive at a school, get out of the car, do your job. You evaluate, advise, encourage or scold, and all the time children are there, looking at you. After a while, they’re just a crowd, faces one after the other, it [...]
octobre 17, 2008
Piggy
Finally, for everyone to see, I unveil the picture of… the piggy! I hope you’re not too disappointed after the long wait; I find him cute anyway…
These animals, along with cows mostly, but also rabbits or goats, are used by schools to generate extra revenue, because yes, piggy is cute, but piggy tastes good as [...]
octobre 14, 2008
Hope you like them!
I’ve had a few photos I wanted to share with you for some time now, but never really got round to using them, which is a shame since they’re really nice (well, I think…). The problem is that they would best serve an article about school feeding, but I’ve already told you about that, and [...]
octobre 13, 2008
Another form of expression
Hi all,
Some of you know this already, some of you don’t. I have a passion for photography (that’s no surprise I think), but that’s not the only way I like to express myself, my other passion is drawing. I know this blog is mainly about Rwanda and my experiences in it, and some may think [...]
octobre 13, 2008
Home!
So finally we have our own place! Finished the nights at the hotels, or not knowing where we’ll be staying the following evening! It took us three weeks (a bit more in fact)?to find this house, but I’m really happy about it, it isn’t as big as some of the houses we’ve visited, and maybe [...]
octobre 7, 2008
Poverty
Rwanda is a land of many contrasts, it is smaller than Scotland and however the variety of landscapes competes with any bigger country. The mountains of the west, the rolling hills of the centre, the savannah of the east… Likewise, it is one of the smallest countries in Africa, but has ten million people living [...]
octobre 6, 2008
And for those who wanted to see Kigali…
Here it is, or at least a view from one of its many hills. I’ll try and get some pictures of the streets, but it could take some time, people aren’t always very happy to see a camera in the city…
And that white veil in the sky, that’s not over exposure, it’s pollution…
octobre 4, 2008
Ngoma field trip
So I’ve just come back from another field trip, and it’s time to let you know more about what’s going on around here. I’ve visited five schools, so as such that was quite the same as my last field trip, putting aside the difference in implication of the people there and so on… I think [...]
