søndag 22. mars 2015

Our daily life through the eyes of our visitors

The last 3 months we have been so lucky having both our parents coming to visit. My parents in law were here 2 weeks in January and my parents 2 weeks in March. We feel very lucky and we enjoyed every bit of their time here. Not only did they bring a lot of good food and things from Europe, but they helped us in the garden, cooking, looking after Sophia and of course gave us great family time. As i looked at the pictures they all took I got the idea to show you some of them. The reason being they see things with new eyes (things we do not think of any more) something which i think you, who do not live here, would like to see also. So this time the photographer is mainly my mother in law and my mother;) Enjoy!

Thursdays are marked days:) here i am trying to get a good bargain
for a nice piece of material


Most things are sold from the floor as you can see




My parents in law at the nicest restaurant close by. Here we
can get a cold drink, brochette and chips for a good price


Hardware shopping street in Nyagatare


Laundry day. Our helper Moses in action!

Our neighbours corn harvest

The neighbours girls


Sowing school run by our 2 collogues from Canada, Peter
and Diane Salmond




Christian trying to fix the fence so Moses chickens wont fly away
( a seemingly never ending story)

The neighbouring kids often knocks on our gate as they call on
Anna Maria or Mama Sophia (my names here in Rwanda)


Some quality time with Farmor and Grossvatti

Washing our hands before the meal

Christian and Matthias busy covering up our 5 meeter deep
garbage hole (unfortunately there is not any garbage system
up running)




The road to our house

Typical Rwandan food at the local restaurant (beans,
cooked banana, rice, meat soup, chapati) 


People always advice me to get an umbrella when
i walk in the sun with Sophia. I find it a bit funny
to use it in the sun though it is smart. anyhow here
Augustine borrowed me one;)

My alternative husband making kitchen shelves:)


Mud bricks in the making






Matthias greets the milk man, who comes every evening with
fresh warm milk for us.


Making Sunday snacks at the porch

A smart wheel chair

A morning stroll. Sophia seems to be the star:)


This is mostly the problem here. Sophia has almost the same size
as those one or two years older than herself


Doing some measurements before building the first water tank. 

My alternative husband, this time fixing some sushi

The local Butcher




Jummy fish



My mums first experience with the Muzungu concept. Muzungu
is a word they use for white people. One can hear people call for you
with that name from everywhere all the time and they will be coming
running to look at you.
This picture was taken as we stopped the car to give Sophia a little
break. Few minutes later it got totally crowded.
My mum got a good laugh:)

Christian made me a outdoor table! A table that can  not be moved
so that it can not be stolen - smart hey:)

Me and my mum outside the Project building

Our daily Chicken watching time

New attempt to keep the chickens from flying away:
clipping their feathers 

Again at the restaurant


Our garden at supper time

This is where we get our wood from




The women are out early to work on the field before the sun gets
too hot.

Kids on their way to school

Shopping time:)
Shopping here means going from one shop to another. Its hard
to find all your groceries at one place ...




We do a lot of this:) 


Mama, Moses and Sophia


Me and my mum at one of the support groups. Today we were doing an
introduction to teaching on preventive healthcare


Hope these pictures was informative and enjoyable for those more interested in how things looks here.

1 kommentar:

  1. Thank you SOOO much for sharing those precious pictures, it made me miss you all alot, but it was great seeing you in action in beloved Rwanda! Greetings to the ones that know me/us.

    We are having quite some big projects on the base (re-branding). We took down the snackbar, repainting ceiling and walls, having a wooden wall instead of the curtain that Sanna put up, turning the main classroom 180° and painting ceiling and walls as well...! It will look a whole lot different afterwards... :)

    Love and hugs
    Rebecca and Fam

    SvarSlett