Bali Pictures I: Beach life (with baby)

Posted by Janine and Mikkel

We finally got around to share some pictures with you showing life in wonderful Bali. First theme is 'beach'. We will warn you: It's very simple, very relaxed and very lovely...and somehow there seems to be a baby Mila in every photo...

Blog Neglect

Posted by Mikkel

It’s been very loooooong since I wrote anything here and I’m trying to think of why.

• Because Rwanda and the Rwandans became “normal” to me and I don’t recognize the special stories anymore. The barefoot kids that run along with me yelling musungu musungu; the incredibly beautiful green hills as soon as I leave Kigali; the luxury of coming home to Rose’s (our cook) dish and dessert of the day; the interesting discussions with friends like JP and Serge about the state of the country or peculiarities about Rwandan sex life; or the football training with 30 dead-serious young guy hoping for either a professional contract or me arranging a job for them.

Rwandan Girls

Posted by Janine (You’d probably agree that Mikkel should write the blog with this title but since he’s not writing anything at the moment, I’ll do it.)

Rwandan girls are beautiful. This is something that Rwandans, Ugandans, Congolese, Kenyans and  Westerners all seem to agree on. But there’s something interesting because they’re pretty for different reasons. My Rwandese colleagues told me the other day that the most beautiful girls have big eyes, ‘with a lot of white, just like cows’. Like cows? Yes like cows.  (They love them here and I can always count on some approving looks especially from elderly people when I say we are from Holland)

Back to the girls. They should also have big legs. Not skinny ones like us white girls. ‘Legs just like cows?’ I ask my colleagues.  But no-no-no that has nothing to do with cows, and they look at me as if I just said something completely stupid.