Rwanda - en Francias...ish

I have travelling ADD.
I was totally content in Kampala, but once we hit the road I’ve been ready to leave each place we’ve been to within 24 hours of arriving. [Note: Kenn is reading over my shoulder and has instructed me to change this number to 3… he might be right.] I’m not sure why – Kenn has described it as having ADD. I think I’m just on the hunt for something… but I don’t know what? The tourist-y activities that surrounded us in SW Uganda were okay, but I wanted to explore without the required $10 guide. So we’ve come to Rwanda to explore a new culture, new city, new language, new food, new people – all things new. And it’s been a really interesting contrast to Uganda, that’s for sure. I’m tempted to say that it’s not like Africa… but then Kigali is right smack in the middle of Africa, so that would be nonsense. Really, it would be more correct to say that it’s an economnically thriving Africa, a side that you don’t see in many countries. The roads are smooth, the motos only take one passenger and you BOTH wear helmets, there are crosswalks and cars actually stop to let you through, the food is delicious, the people are friendly but not in an overwhelming ‘HEY MZUNGU!’ kind of way. I’ve also seen more white people in the past 2 days than I had in the previous 6 weeks combined, and the prices here reflect that. “Ah, cést plus l’argent” is a common cry - regardless of whether or not it actually makes sense, the frugal Dutchie/poor student within me feels better for having said it.
But it’s beautiful, and it’s new.
Today I had the urge to move on again, but on Kenn’s (wise) insistance, we’re going to stay and explore things more fully here. We took a solid couple of days to travel here… we like to call it the scenic route… so it only follows that we must spend a solid couple of days actually being here.

The biggest adventure has been getting along with a new language. Turns out that I don’t remember my grade 10 French as well as I thought… but Kenn describes this better than I can:

“We're looking for accomodation at "St. Paul's". I'm pretty sure St. Paul's is a church. I ask a man "Ou est St. Paul's?" He becons for us to follow him. I want to confirm that St. Paul's is a church but realise I don't know the word for church after I've started the question .... "Qui es St. Paul's ... pour le Jesus?" Blank stare.

I camp - Je tente.
We camp - Nous tentons.

Shannon speaks better french than me, but she's too busy laughing at me or being embarrassed by me to ever use it.”

He’s right, I really am too busy laughing at him or being embarassed by him to try it myself.

So – Kigali hasn’t been what I’d expected (actually, a lot of this week hasn’t been what I’d expected), but the adventure continues! Or, rather, l’adventure continuez.
Is that right?! Probably not.
Crap. (Crapé?!)