Hi Folks.

Welcome to my blog. As I hope you’ve realized, I have left for Rwanda to teach for a year. This is my record and your best approximation to a regular fix of my rambling, non-sequitur stories. Please don’t judge me for being so cliché. The internet is already tricky in Kigali, so I think posting things here may be the easiest way to send out word regularly.

To briefly recap, I’m in Rwanda for a year, teaching Physics (and maybe other things) in a French speaking secondary school in the south of the country. I am here with an organization called World Teach, accompanied by 17 other volunteers who will be placed throughout the country. We got here on the 30th of December, and are spending our first three weeks in Kigali doing an intensive teaching and "Culture" training sessions. When I leave Kigali, I will be the only one in our group heading south, to a town called Save, right outside the city of Butare. There, I will be living and teaching at a boarding school called St. Bernadette de Save… and that’s all I know for now! As we are told (and discover) every day, living in Africa requires patience, and flexibility, and being ok with not getting anything done on time. And surprisingly - "slow by slow" - I’m getting used to it.