I am not sure if you can see the details of this map, but if you look carefully you can see blue and pink highlighting. If you can see those marks, you will be able to tell where all of the health centers are that we will visit in the next months (Note: if you click on the map you can see an enlarged version).
The last week has consisted of me eating a lot of bananas, apples and peanut butter along with a steady diet of rice and kidneys for dinner. They really like the kidney meat here becasue it is very tender. It is the equivalent of our filet-mignon. So the food here is pretty similar to what you would expect in a developing country– a lot of rice, potato, beans, etc…
I went for an interview today with the Millenium village Project and have been offered an unpaid opportunity to work for them
Yeah, the life of being an intern with little experience means I have to beg someone to let me work for them for free. I would be an assistant to a guy who oversees 11 health centers for the MVP in one of the poorest districts in Rwanda. I think it would be an interesting opportunity. It would be good-bye to Kigali and embracing the village life. However, this wouldn’t start until September because I am still working on this Brandeis project.
I walked for a while today and chatted with a Congolese student. He said they had to leave Congo because of the safety issues. There seem to be a lot of those stories here.
We should start collecting data and roaming the country on Monday, however that is pending the approval of the Ministry of Health. I guess they sent back a letter today becasue of the bad grammar…
In closing… J’espere que je peux parler le francis tres bien, mais Je croix que il va etre longtemps pour moi
