Monday it was 110 degrees out in the sun! HOT, but surprisingly didn’t feel excruciating. Went into work and played on the internet after writing up the plan for the nutrition component for 2011. Went out to lunch with Abdoul, then came home and read after a short workout with my jump rope. My bosses want me to teach them English, which I really don’t want to do…at all… but I said I’d do it. So, was waiting for them to come when one of them showed up at my gate saying she was trying to call to tell me she and the other couldn’t come (I was talking to mom and there’s no call waiting). Right after she left, it started raining for the first time in almost 2 weeks.
Tuesday, went into work and played on the internet again. My boss was working on the data in Excel and called me in to help her with creating a new page. It was pretty funny how easy it was, but she caught on quick, so I didn’t have to sit and go over and over it. Went and bought a few things at the shop on the way home for lunch (bread and yogurt). Pretty boring day.
Wednesday morning I was having trouble closing my lock for my gate and a lady walking by yelled up “bonjour!” so I said good morning, then told her my lock was broken and she came up to help me. While she was trying and failing, she recruited two boys walking on the road to come up and help, they couldn’t do it either and told me I needed oil, so I opened the gate and yelled over the fence at the houseboy next door for oil. He brought it, I handed my lock over the fence and he oiled it and opened and closed it a few times (after I passed him my keys). I said thank you and the boys were still waiting at my gate, while the woman had gone. I closed and locked the gate and said thanks to the boys. Surprisingly, I wasn’t that late. Same boring stuff, except that today I had to write up a summary of the nutrition program for the report and my boss asked me to summarize a paper on bereavement for her. She asked me if I was busy that day, and me hoping for some work to do said no, then she asked if I could do something for her that was personal, not work. I reluctantly agreed and ended up reading a paper on bereavement and old age and summarizing each paragraph for her. I tried to use simple language because her English isn’t very good, but it was hard sometimes because it was a technical paper. Anyways, I finished it Thursday. Neither of my bosses came in on Thursday and I don’t know why. They usually tell me when they go somewhere. So, I just was in the office by myself and I left early.
Friday, I didn’t go into work because there was a party for one of the PC staff in Kigali who is leaving back to the states. I met up with Trish in Butare and we took the bus together to Kigali. When we got in, I went up to the Chinese store and bought two pillows and pillowcases and then took the bus to Adam’s where I made jello shots for the party that night. I don’t have a fridge, so I had been holding onto this jello for months waiting for an opportunity to make it, which came when Adam was having his housewarming party. I went to the PC party and it was really fun! I was one of the first ones to arrive (as in, when I got there, there were only 20-25 people!), so I helped cook a few things. We made so much food; I was stuffed to the brim! Mini pizzas, veggie samosas, salad, chapatti quesadillas, chips and salsa, hummus, cheese dip, etc. Almost all the PC staff, from the drivers to the administrators was there along with almost all of the PCVs from the first group and Franchesca’s friends whom she had made in Kigali during her time here. We cooked, ate, talked, jumped on her giant trampoline!, played with the kids and just had a good time. When we all finally filed out, I went back to Adams to get ready for the party. He was still out doing a presentation for the leadership group and my timing was pretty good, because just as I was walking up to the gate, Louis was putting his key in. Just hung out at the house for an hour or two when everyone started showing up. We had a fun night with lots of people, including some PCVs.
Saturday, Adam woke up before me and got up and went to the market to buy stuff to make me guacamole! It was so cute. He had to google how to make it and there were no tortilla chips, so we ate it with regular chips but it was good! Some of the boys came over and sent Adam and I to pick up pizzas so we’d have full bellies for beer fest. We ate our pizzas (I wussed out and had to put mine in the fridge) and then drove over to beerfest! We were some of the first people there and as soon as you got in, there was a table with beers waiting on it, so you walk in, grab a cold beer and then continue on. We had a long night of fun and dancing. I ran into a LOT of PC people and other friends whom I haven’t seen in a while, so that was fun too. And even though everyone swore up and down that we would NOT end the night at Papyrus, we did. Sunday, we slept a lot and I went back to Butare.
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