March 29, 2011

Hard work!

Posted by Mikkel

It’s been long since I wrote more than one or two lines to you.  I have been very busy!!! I keep telling myself that I must adopt a more relaxed (some here would say African) attitude to work, but it’s difficult. Especially when my organisation (Educat) has gone schizophrenic on me. I believe that is the best way to describe it. 

March 11, 2011

Job dilemma: food & beverage or books?

Posted by Janine
I got a job offer! After quite a few weeks of intensive searching and ‘selling myself’;) and meeting with more than 10 different organizations and companies…this one came out of the blue. Like it usually seems to go: by pure luck, via my housemate. In theory, I could have just chilled in my hammock sipping smoothies for the last 4 weeks (maybe I did?) because so far my efforts have only been rewarded into promises that ‘they will get back to me’.

March 4, 2011

10 Reasons to Like our House

Posted by Janine
It took some time but we found a house! After having visited at least twenty places (partly while Mikkel was at work) I surely know everything about different living styles, ranging from bucket showers and hole-in-the-ground toilets to super fancy ‘expat’ mansions. I also found out that the Rwandese have a peculiar taste for furniture, to put it mildly. But our final catch was worth the search: