Muraho Rwanda - TCinGC

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Finally I finished my intern at Horizon Construction in Rwanda. People of the company had a farewell party. This is the General Manager, Jean-Claude. Thank you.

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A day before the last day of my intern the bulldozer was broken. The arm came out of an axle.

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Kigali is hilly city. A car needs to go around a ridge to an opposite hill. But a pedestrian can short cut through the bottom of a valley. Many of these roads are not paved.  

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Bricks were made dry aside a road. I also saw bricks like this in a village. But here was the capital city. I was so surprised because people use the brick even the capital city, Kigali, has 20 floors hight building.

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Near the hotel. Many children were carrying water from a pond of a golf course. The kid of the first picture did a double somersault.

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In my internship project, I am consulting improvement of project management of this company.

I unified the monthly report formats that were used to be different from each project manger and site engineer. This unification, I believe, contributes to remove MURA (inconsistency) about the project management method in this company. MURA (inconsistency) is one of 3 elements that Toyota Motor considers disturbing to improve of quality.

And I introduced the graph that enables to easily compare between a project plan and actual works. To create this form, this CMU web site of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (http://pmbook.ce.cmu.edu/) is so helpful for me who am not familiar with construction project.

On the last Friday, the General Manager approved the new format and ordered every project manager and site engineer to report by using the format from this month.

Clarisse in the first picture, a co-worker with me, actually starts to use it. She calculates fuel consumption of vehicles. She can know the vehivle type from only license number like RAB10234! Her brain seems to be a dictionary.

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He is my younger brother Lee from Korea. He said that he came here from not either North Korea or South Korea but from Korea. He is a so polite guy. He works a museum project at Parliament of Rwanda. He built soldier statues. Even so my face is so big comparing to Lee(-o-;)

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Last week we went to Rwanda Expo 2013. We drunk the first draft beer in Rwanda. Yellow drink is a fruits juice at a cafe near the hotel. Both drinks were good taste.

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Clarisse is my co-worker about project management. She built many roads in Rwanda.

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The newest machine of the company is to scrape a surface of a paved road and to recycle asphalt. But nobody can operate.

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On the last Friday we attended the orientation event for students 2015 of CMU Rwanda. We played bowling. The bowling lane was manual operation. Staffs were behinds the pins to stand pins.

We met the student who works at the president office as the secretary about IT. He said that an issue about the president is urgent. So all of his tasks are urgent, he said. He also said that the president sometimes forgets his password and asks him it.

Everyone has interest about Japan society and Japanese technology. A student asked me the reason of the current situation of Sony and Panasonic. Others asked me about the number of suicides in Japan.

After coming to Rwanda, I often consider why Japan could become developed country after Samurai era and after the WWII.

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Banana beer. In Rwanda people make a beer from a banana for their consumption. So usually this beer is not sold in a store. But we got this beer in Rwanda EXPO. The taste is like a Japanese sake. It was better than I expected. The percentage of alcohol is 13%. 

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In Rwanda, the price of a car is very expensive. The brand new Toyota echo, the first picture, of which price is about $12K in Japan is $25K in Rwanda. So people usually buy a used car. So many more than 20-year old cars run in Rwanda. I was convinced that some used car dealers in Japan gather so old car in Japan. They can sell these old car in Africa.

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Akagera national park. I knew that there are many zeburas in the park. 

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Today a dog salesman came to our office. Puppies were so quite. But after dreaming time, the salesman went away with puppies in a bag. Here I realized that it's the real world.

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He is the equipment manager Damas. Now today we had the first training session about our new solution for an equipment management by using MS Access. After the session, he got the internal audit document. He replied the comment of the auditors. I think that he could reply that the equipment management  will be improved by our new solution.

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Here is Mille Collines Hotel. This hotel is the setting of the film, Hotel Rwanda. This film is based on the actual story during the genocide. I was so surprised that the hotel is very center of Kigali, the capital of Rwanda.