9/19/2020 1 Comment City travel![]() After some much needed sleep and getting over jet-lag, one of the girls on the program (Anna) and I went out to look for lunch and a café to start working around noon. We tried one spot close to the guest house, but they were out of most things on their menu unfortunately. So we kept on walking (up a hill, we were very tired) but then looked on Google maps and found a great looking place for us to go that said it was only a mile away. That turned into about 45 minutes of walking the streets of Kigali to find it. The walk was actually really fun because it was along the embassy strip with no hills and a nice sidewalk. We finally found the Inzora's rooftop café around 1pm! We went upstairs to find a bookstore at the front, and towards the back there was the café. There wasn't a lot of food to offer, but they had really good looking drinks so I got the Fruit Passion smoothie (sooo good!!). There was a bottom layer with the bookstore and then a rooftop floor that was completely outdoors, though a little too hot for today. We studied downstairs for a few hours and I worked on my Kinyarwanda. After awhile we packed up and headed back to the guest house. Before we left we took a look around the bookstore part and found some very nice postcards and a lot of books in French! We agreed that it was definitely somewhere we were going to go back to! We took a taxi, which was an adventure of its own trying to get the driver to understand where we were going. Though he was really nice and we got to the hostel. We really going back that there was a much more direct way we could've taken to get there... oh well, know for next time. We all decided the other day that tonight we would try cooking for ourselves in the kitchen and made plans with the cook. Some of the other girls went out shopping for supplies for a pasta and sangria night. Everyone contributed to the cooking/chopping of the veggies and drinks. I worked on chopping up the red peppers. The young man who works as a cook here was hanging out with us to help while we worked in his kitchen, being very supportive! He helped show each of us easy ways to peal and chop up veggies. We then sat down for dinner and had so much fun, it was the best night yet! At first, we played 2 truths and a lie which was a good way to get to know everyone. Afterwards we played a long round of Never Have I Ever and just joked for hours. Coming out of the dinner a few of us got together to watch a movie and just hang out. Overall it was a really fun day, getting more and more used to the environment and excited for the next few months!
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9/20/2020 09:28:52 am
Glad things seem to be settling down and that you are getting some rest!
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