Lake Kivu

Last weekend I took my first real outing other than my visit to Tanzania.  Danielle and I travelled to Gisenyi, a resort town on Lake Kivu.  We spent only a night there and the morning of the following day.  I was quite anxious to return to Kigali as I am behind on my curriculum and I think that I was having separation issues as a result from being apart from my computer for the first time since I've been here.  

The evening was very quiet.  The sky was hazy but there was no rain.  Rwanda is experiencing the height of its tourist season, and there are tons of international aid workers in Goma, so it was a bit shocking to see the bars completely empty.  The lack of people and things to do left me with nothing to do but yearn for my laptop all evening long.  

Clearly, relaxing is difficult for me but I managed to do it for about two hours Sunday morning. Danielle and I went and sat at the lake front at the the nicest hotel in Gisenyi.  I fell asleep on a lawn chair.

Side note that I found particularly amusing the other day:  I went looking for the Rwandan version of Draino at the local supermarket.  I couldn't find it but I did find a bathroom airfreshener with an attached compass.  No draino...but just gotta have an airfreshener that tells me which way is north in case I get lost in the bathroom.