Nxai Pan (II)

Botswana Teil 1

und der Garten :-)

Home - first month, not much furniture

Amboselli

Rwanda is nice, but Kenya is GREAT! Was at Amboselli National Park and found what I was looking for. Endless view, harsh and breath-taking ...
Can not wait to see much more of Africas vastness. Will upload some pictures soon. But today the internet connection is somehow not very strong...

Reconsidering my jogging partners

I do have to admit, that my jogging partners are two quite unreliable little fellows! ;-)

Trying to figure out, if their mum was maybe angry with them as they came home after dusk or if they just don't like the Counting Crows so much....

Anyhow. ALL GOOD IN RWANDA. Despite some logistic challenges (house, car etc.) I feel truely great! Somehow at terms with myself and happy that I finally follow my dreams, which I did not do for such a long time....

Sawa!

Found a huge round-about near my (current) house today. About 1 km away on the top of the hill. Completely empty in the evening (besides some lonely joggers) as there are only ministries around. Each full circle about 1 km, I estimate.
Off course not an ideal spot, but for my hill in Kigali - quite a great spot!!!

Anyways- jogged up the hill, then 3 rounds and wanted to run back as suddenly these 2 boys turned up. One about 12 years, the other maybe 8. No street kids, for sure, but from a simple local family, I guess. They started to run next to me. Just like that. Not bothering me, but right on my side. First I got a bit anoyed and started to run faster. Of course they copied and we started to play around a little changing the speed. After a while I gave up to get rid of them, but jogged along and did not care... actually enjoying their company more and more every minute.
After a little while I decided to share my IPod music with the older one, who was next to me. Heard Mr. Jones from the Counting Crows which is since a few days my favorite jogging song...
So we jogged along. Without words. Just listening to the music. Happily. Only making sure once in a while that the other is ok. "Sawa?" "Sawa!" (That's one of the very few word in Kinyarwanda I know so far. Means "Are you/Is that ok?" as well as "Everything ok").
I ran downhill with them, way past my house ... and when I decided after a while that it was time for me to run back home as it got dark, I stopped, said "A demain" and ran back.
I am not sure if they understand french. But I guess I would be happy to see them again tomorrow...

And I guess I never jogged with a bigger smile on my face - ever! :-)