Life in Buja

So, it's been more than a month now. Time to send some news to the rest of the world.

Everything has been going great since I arrived. I live in a house in the city centre that I share with two house mates. One of them left us last week end will be replaced next Thursday. I met a lot of people, mostly French I must admit, and we go out a lot. Yesterday was one of those typical evenings : theatre show at the French institute of Buja and then we ate micupo, a speciality of Burundi that consists in grilled beef meat with onions, manioc and fried bananas. The food here is repetitive but delicious.

School is nice, my students are agreeable even though some of them are having a hard time learning. I am not that demanding as a teacher but they have not attended school in twenty years now so they lost the habit. It is uneasy but I still enjoy it. I get a lot of help from the school, I have an assistant and my colleagues are all really nice. I am going to miss one whole week of class soon because I have to take my exams at the French embassy.

I have not yet had much time to travel. My house mates did but I have a lot of work right now. I hope that I will soon leave Buja and explore the small country I live in. However, I am part of a walking group and we walk approximately four hours every Sunday morning. Most of the pictures I post are taken during those walks. The group is mainly Bazungu, white people, but we all come for different reasons and from different country so the atmosphere is still very interesting.

I am doing great and I can't believe time is running so fast.