But Ambassador...

I’m struggling to keep completely up to date with everything.  But rest assured, life is very busy.  We started our language lessons a couple of days ago and are currently spending the first two hours of every morning learning Kinyarwanda.  It’s going well but it is consuming huge parts of my energy!  The days are still full of other session and yesterday afternoon, a few of us also did our household shop.  This was a big trip to T2000 (a Chinese store) where we purchased bowls, buckets, brushes, bedding and lots of other items which did and did not begin with the letter B. 

There was also huge excitement for four of us last night.  As most of my readers will know, I have an Irish passport (on account of my parents) I am currently travelling on this passport.  There is no Irish Embassy in Rwanda, the nearest is in Uganda, but the Ambassador there makes it his business to look out for his citizens in Rwanda.  The current Ambassador to Uganda is about to leave his post.  This meant that he carried out his final visit to Rwanda yesterday.  What good fortune!  Only 4 days in the country and we were invited to have dinner with him.  We went to a very nice Indian restaurant in Kigali and shared some lovely food (it tasted all the lovelier for not being melange!) and we even had a couple of glasses of wine.  There was great conversations and some plans for future events.  It was a great introduction to the Irish community in Rwanda (apparently there are about 23 of us – but about 18 were at the meal).  It’s very sad to see the ambassador leave, but we are cheered by the news that his replacement will be coming to visit us before Christmas....watch this space!