Micellaneous

Some insight into my random thoughts during my day-to-day life..

It's funny how living in a small rural African town can become so normal.

I can wear my long-underwear shirt overtop of my clothes and no one here is the wiser because long-underwear is nonexistent in Rwanda.

I feel like I should start acting really bizarre because everyone stares at me as if I am already.

We're really lucky to have sports complexes and stocked libraries at home. Refugees live a very difficult life. Refugees want to be at home in their own country (provided death is not imminent - hence the fact that they are forced to take refuge), not taking refuge in a foreign place. I'm so lucky that I have never had to enter a completely insecure country with bodies rotting on the streets, infrastructure destroyed, no electricity, cadavres floating in the lakes and rivers, and militia hiding out in the swamps and near the fresh water springs, a country that I had never been to before, to feel inexplicable joy at 'coming home' because I'd been a refugee all my life.

Children are everywhere. There are SO many people dependent on Rwanda's limited arable land. What will happen? What should happen?

Are Rwandan coffee growers benefiting fairly from Starbuck's new 'Black Apron Exclusive' offer of Rwandan Blue Bourbon coffee?

It is really cool to watch a storm flash its lightening across the sky over the hills every night, but without it being right overhead to rain down on me.

I am so drenched! In Vancouver we know the meaning of neverending rains, but we have little idea about torrential downpours.