Farewell Rwanda
Tomorrow is our last day at work and we set off for Tanzania on Thursday!
I can’t believe how quickly our time has whizzed by in Rwanda, I guess it is the routine of work in an office. I think working in Rwanda is what I expected from volunteering in Africa. We have met some lovely people, managed to achieve some things and felt appreciated for the work we have done so all in all a great experience ( very different from CTPH).
At the end of last week we went and did some work in the field. Simon did some teaching and we both did a nutrition and disease survey in Nyanza and then Nyungwe. It was all very interesting, visiting the Batwa community, if not a bit tiring....
After the work we travelled to Gisakura (also in Nyungwe) and stayed in the guest house there for a couple of nights. On Saturday we went in to the forest which was beautiful, passing through tea plantations and then visiting a pretty spectacular waterfall. The walk was really nice, 4 hrs and not too many steep hills, much nicer than the weekend before.
Tonight we are heading to our final pub quiz at an Italian (sol e Luna) we won the quiz last week (no thanks to me!) so have had to set the questions for this week. Tomorrow we are going for dinner at my boss’s house for a final send off and then we leave the land of a thousand hills for somewhere a bit flatter and possibly a bit warmer I think!
We will both leave Rwanda with fond memories and hope to visit again one day...... we also leave in our wake a broken computer with no functioning internet so blog posts will be a little shorter from now on-done by I phone unless we can locate a computer, it all seems to just be wifi and bring your own devise these days!
Anyway I hope all is good at home and we will post some more after our Safari on the Serengeti, exciting!!
Lots of love
Helen xxx
Hey there, just sitting at the office for the last time finishing the reports from the surveys we completed in Nyungwe of the Batwa community and the final report for my nutrition survey in Uganda (40 pages long!).
Will be sad to leave and Rwanda has been a great place to work, with great people and some lovely countryside. Looking forwards to Tanzania and will be there and in the Serengeti just in time for my birthday on the 5th May.
Hope you are all well, lots of love to all and will be in touch soon.
Si
