Week 6

WEEK 6

Meet Ms. Makuru ...the Pirate of Rwanda :)  

Amakuru again beautiful people !

Our week started off with a beautiful sunny Monday, Honore’s  brain working at its peak ! With Rhianna complaining her names didn’t have Kinyarwanda version , Honore  discovered Rhianna’s middle name , Mclure, had a Rwandan version; MAKURU, literally meaning “What’s new ?“. Since then everybody is been calling her MAKURU which she seems to hate and love at the same time :) 

We attended morning devotions with partners , it is always a pleasure, and rushed to the field where the team split up into two to make our first stoves of week 6. Splitting up is always fun as the two groups be racing to see who finishes first and who’s got the best stove. Fact be fact, MATESO’s stove is always the dream stove J . When it comes to  quality and  aesthetic, Emily and Rhianna are the team perfectionists ! It will always take more time to smoothen a stove than to make one from the scratch !

Aline muddin' it right !

Dream stove ! 

Enthusiastic and ready for another productive day , Dear Tuesday came as bad news , as the team woke up to find angry uncle rain knocking on  the AZIZI(our  accommodation) doors ! This meant being stuck with nothing to do all morning  as we couldn't go to the field ….Gosh, you should have seen the disappointment look on everyone’s face. Nonetheless , we tried to make our day a little  productive by using the afternoon to go cement the stoves we had finished in the previous week.

Mr Wednesday and Ms Thursday  were so dear to us , as we were able to go to Zion school in a beautiful sunny day. This time classes were a little different , to our surprise the kids were in good mood and were able to concentrate for a whole hour and a half . That was wow to us ! Allen , Emily and Joel decided to make the most out of this as they knew this was as rare as a miracle ! Geez , it felt so gooood! 

With a more relaxed Friday as it is our only day off , we were more than ready for Saturday, which happened to be the last of the month. In good spirit , we joined the community in UMUGANDA ( community work ).  The community was so amused to have us helping and of cause as always  the UK volunteers enjoyed some audience of  locals curious of how MUZUNGUs (Whites ) hold shovels and hoes ! As we came to the end of Umuganda , we tried to go home to be stopped by a local authority pleading us to attend the community meeting that always takes place after Umuganda. The community was keen to have us attend the meeting with them …so we decided to do so. A number of subjects were touched , to mention ; Teen pregnancy , Hygiene and sanitation , Election registration and so on . We left in good mood and said goodbye as this happened to be our last UMUGANDA with the community.

Working hard.....

Playing "Cheat" with Isimi and Emelyne .

Dear Sunday was even more fun, as after church we had a pleasure to have two beautiful ladies ; Isimbi and Emelyne , both from the previous cycle , over for lunch. Quite fun chatting with them as they shared their experiences  in RDIS-Muhanga  with us and their action at home stories. It is always a blessing having people as such over  .

Prayer Requests:

1.       Nepal and Edward’s Action Nepali children

2.       Burundi political unrest

3.       Emily’s cough

4.       Aline’s cold .

5.       MATESO’s Master’s interviews .

Till Next…..