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Our last interview was with RWACOF that produces coffee. Now we've met with almost 20 companies from different industries here in Rwanda and we've found some good results for our thesis! Yesterday David came and we will work with him this week here! I also went to the Genocide Memorial Centre. I learnt more and bought a book about the genocide which I want to read as soon as possible
This is our breakfast everyday. I take these fruits with two ciapattis (it's a bread almost like naan bread). I later went to the Kimironko market which is the biggest market here. I bought fabric for a pair of pants I want to do
Getting my room cleaned
Okay so I'm just studying here on my balcony when three people come running into my room. They started laughing when they saw that I was still in my room but just didn't really care about me and started moving around with all my stuff. Now all three of them are cleaning the floor here on the balcony, screaming and laughing to each other. In Kinyarwanda of course so I understand nothing. I just pretend being busy with my studies... They seem to have a really good time because they are barely cleaning but only laughing telling jokes to each other. Love it!
This is our office here in Kigali. It is located on Elins balcony. Also had some pool and Volleyboll chill yesterday. A good weekend!
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Rwanda has a terrible history of horrible things that have happened in the genocide 1994. Everyone here has either lost someone or know someone who has. Almost 1 million people got murdered from the 3 month long genocide during this time. That was 20 % of the entire population of Rwanda, and 70 % of all the Tutsi living in Rwanda at this time
When I was looking for a new place for us to stay I ended up walking the wrong way and jumped over a fence. A guard walked towards me and told me I was not in the right way. He was working for the Camp Kigali Memorial and that is what these photos show. This is where 10 belgian UN peacekeepers got murdered the first day of the genocide. This is the building where they were sleeping and the corner, on the second photo is the one where they all got killed. It was truly a weird experience for me to stand there, but it is so important to understand more about why this happened for it to never happen again
We went to THE MOST AMAZING group gym thing a few days ago. The day started when we tried out suits and dresses for the pre wedding we are going to with one of our friends here. I got a suit that did not fit me at all and it was not really the neatest one I have worn but it was ok for one day for sure.
After this fitting we went with the friends of ours to a gym. I thought that we were just doing normal gym excercise but apparently not. The whole thing started at 18.00 and we all started running around in a circle in the big gym area (that also served as a wedding hall). I really pushed it because I did not really think it was about to get tough. The warm up was just running doing some normal movements and nothing special but that was just the beginning. When the warm up was finished we stood in a circle, I'd say 50 of us where me and Elin were the only white people. They played the most amazing music from the 80'-90' and the movements were super easy to follow but the exercise was really tough. We jumped, moved and danced for 2 hours and I have never in my entire life done anything like this. People were screaming to the music, pepping each other and telling how to do something in the right way. I have never been so pepped for a group activity as this one. This exercise was by far the best I have ever done in my life! I smiled as never before and the muscle sourness was, and still are, pretty intense.
This amazing activity was free for us because it was our first time, but costs 5 SEK (0,60€)....!!! I will go back there as soon as possible to do it again
My birthday here was celebrated with a 7 hour drive from the north to Kigali. We went to the cinema so the day was pretty decent. Two days after Elin and our Rwandan friends Lucie and Nelly had plan one whole day for me. The day started by them driving me to Nellys home where we had lunch. After the lunch Lucie took me to find a post card for one of her friends birthday. She had me pick out the card and I also wrote it for her.
Later on we went to a bar where just sat down and talked. 30 min after they all had invited some more friends and they all surprised me with a cake and lots of party hats. So so so nice of them to do this for me. We had a good dinner and played pool that night.
The day when Elin and Nils went home I decided to stay another day to hike another trail for about 6 hours. I got a lovely guide and it was only him and me. This personal guide and this long hike costed me only 40 $ !!!
During this amazing hike I saw two black & white hornbills, blue monkeys, great blue turacol, frogs, 400 year old mahogany trees 60 meters tall and I got bitten by a djungel ant (it was so huge and really did not wanted to let go of my leg). I saw 4 water falls and the weirdest/most beautiful butterflies I've ever seen
The fruit you see on the photo is actually just a seed from a massive tree here in this forest.
We learnt a lot about the forest, this for example is the scull of the last djungel elephant in this national park. It got killed in 1999 by poachers, so horrible. They are now looking for elephants that can adjust to these climates from Tanzania or other forests in Rwanda so that there is a possibility for the elephant to again walk here.
After our walk in the National Park we just couldn't have enough. We decided to stay in the forest for one night. We rented a tent and sleeping bags and they lit us a fire. We had some food the the british people and then some drinks around the fire. This experience, to camp in the middle of a massive forest in East Africa, in Rwanda was also pretty amazing. I loved lying in my sleeping bag listening to the sounds of the forest during that night. In the morning Nils and Elin went home to Kigali and I stayed another day planning to go on a longer hike in the forest
So we finally arrived to the Nyungwe Forest National Park after the accident on the road. We met up with some lovely people from the UK when we waited on the road, they later told us that they were the ones that caused the accident in the first place. They tried to drive past a massive truck in a turn (??) and then they met another big vehicle and they crashed. A few hours later the road to Uwinka was clear and we got there about 14.00. We had lunch and started the Canopy Walkway at 15.00. It took us about 2 hours in total at it was truly MINDBLOWING. It was one of the greatest forests I have ever been to. There were not a lot of tourists and me, Elin and Nils had a guide of our own. The canopy walkway is 70 meters up in the air and is about 90 meters long. The trees you can see on these photos is trees about 50-70 meters tall
I think I will let the pictures speak for themselves. If you ever come to Rwanda, you just have to visit this amazing place!
How many people does it take to read a map? About 5-6. We finally found our way from Huye in the South to the canopy walkway and the rain forest here in Rwanda. On the way an accident happened which delayed all the traffic for about 3 hours. We got there just in time to eat and start the 2 hour walk we had ahead of us