From the house
I turn right out of the gate and walk towards the main road along here there are two very enterprising businesses just before the main road. On the LHS of the dirt road is a sawmill and furniture makers as well as a metal fabrication operation which makes metal doors, window frames, welds bicycles, ...
Opposite is another sawmill / carpenters who are always very busy making chairs, bed-frames, shelves, cupboards, …
Quite a busy week in the office as the DEO was trying to get his documents ready for the very important meeting that is approaching with inspectors from MINELOC (Ministry of local government)..
I am travelling to Huye (formerly Giterama) to work with another EMA Tricia Atherton. She has Headteachers who want an analysis of their schools result in internal assessments for years S1 to S3. This entails me working with Tricia to finalise the spreadsheet and enter the data so that the heads can be shown how to enter the data themselves in future terms.
I stay over at Tricia’s lovely house in Giterama, used for a number of years as a VSO residence so it has gradually acquired a more homely feel and is better equipped as each volunteer uses their household allowance to add to what is there.
Heather, another VSO volunteer, has arrived and with the help of April has prepared an Indian Meal for 13 people! This is great quality and the meal is eaten in stages, before during and after, a showing of the sound of music. I am the only person who has never seen the full film and the 12 others, all female, sing along to all the songs. It was quite an enjoyable if bizarre experience. Tricia’s house has hot water showers and I really enjoy my en-suite room.
I travel back to Kigali as I am to attend the June Leavers Forum which is for all the volunteers returning before November. There are seven of us there as a couple cannot make it. It feels quite odd to now be on the home-run to leaving. There are lots of things to do and forms to get filled in before I can leave!
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