This weekend, Joco, Susan and I went to visit Zach and Evan at their home in Nygatare. Evan and Zach live together in a house next to their boarding school, only a 5KM walk up and down hills to town. Besides their 10KM walk roundtrip to get absolutely anything, the spot seems pretty ideal. They have a great house with a courtyard and actual furniture! (not always a given in Worldteach living situations).
The bus us girls took to get up there took FOREVER. Besides being a huge budget school bus type bus with no shocks at all, the driver decided that dropping people off at their individual houses would be the best plan, making our three hour bus trip take closer to four and a half. By the last hour, we were so delirious we decided that singing golden oldies would be the best plan for us. We treated our fellow passengers to quite a program, including: Leader of the Pack, Build Me Up Buttercup, Stand By Me, Ain’t No Mountain, It’s In His Kiss and I Think we are Alone Now, accompanied only by my I pod touch. Look for our CD dropping in November. 
The Nag
After meeting the boys, we had a few drinks and retired. Saturday morning we woke up to bright sunshine and decided to take the long, yet beautiful walk to town through the green pastoral hills of Northern Rwandan. The second we stepped outside, the sky darkened. As we started walking, the sprinkles started, Then, the heavens opened and raindrops the size of pennies started pelting us. This kept up the entire walk to down, and we arrived looking like drowned muzungu rats. After a lunch of the best melange in Rwanda, we returned home on motos and settled into our sleeping bags for a wonderful, supremely cozy Dexter marathon. Jo “This is what its like to be a grub and I love it!” Jane “Not sure I have ever been so cozy and happy” (Susan was watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer on her dvd player with earphones and thus didn’t have anything to add)
Once the rain stopped, we decided to take a walk down to the river to look for monkeys. That is, we decided to take a walk down a dirt path after a torrential rain storm. The rest of this mini adventure is better told in pictures. The photo credit goes to Susan for her beautiful pictures.
MONKEY!
Sunday it was time to go! Zach and Evan are excellent hosts and fab cooks and we will be back! On the bus ride home, Jo and I were on a bus so swanky it had a TV! After a violent Japanese movie, they played Eurovision Music Videos. This inspired Jo and I to bust out the Frank (Sinatra). We went from New York, New York to My Kind of Town. Then we adapted the lyrics to fit out surroundings. (Sample- Kigali is My Kind of Town- Kigali is) Again, look for the complete versions on our upcoming cd.
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