Update on family life in Rwanda

I realise it’s been a while since our last substantial blog post, but we’ve had excuses! It’s partially as a result of our efforts to get our first newsletter from Rwanda out on time (you should all have received it by now if you’re on our mailing list) and partly because our internet has been slow and unreliable. We’ve also had some sickness in the family, with first Hannah and now Tim and Will having a fever and being a bit under the weather. Hopefully we’re all on the path to recovery, and we hope to have faster, unlimited internet arranged within the next week or so.

We’ve also had some progress on the visa front; Tim’s visa has been issued and the original documents we need to prove Catherine, Will and Hannah are related to him have arrived from Australia. Here’s hoping we may soon be legal in Rwanda!

Will and Hannah may have been a bit sick, but that’s not stopped them from getting into all sorts of mischief together, mischief which seems to multiply by the day as Hannah’s walking gets faster, steadier and capable of carrying her further into trouble. She can carry things as she moves! She loves unpacking almost anything (like the shopping bag below), and has a particular predilection for electronics and cables, which she can also chew upon.

We’ve been enjoying the English language congregation at church, and I took a camera along so that you can put a bit of a picture to the scene. This isn’t the whole cathedral; we meet in one of its transepts.

And finally, we’ve had a tour of our new house-to-be, conducted by the Director General of the hospital.

Our house, with Dr Tindaho’s in the background, sharing a wall and fence

Work is actually moving fairly quickly, with the garden now all weeded and ready to landscape and tiles being laid inside.

 

 Our capacious backyard, currently a “tabula rasa”

Our master bedroom

The bathroom (below left) and lounge room however still have a little way to go:

A new road being built past the house, but it makes access a little tough at the moment. Yes, that is a road in the foreground! The Provincial Army Base is in the background, so we’ll have security nearby!

And finally, a picture of our new resident “garden fountain” at the Guesthouse: