Second Weekend in Rwanda: Muzungu Brunch

For our second weekend in Rwanda we decided to take it easy and stay at home in Gitarama. Friday night we met two lovely ladies - Tricia who is from the UK, and Judy who is from Ireland. The previous interns were very close to Tricia and Judy when they were here, so one of them (Lisa) introduced us to them via e-mail so that we could grown our muzungu family here in Gitarama. We met Tricia and Judy for dinner friday evening at Splendid Hotel (the place we stayed our first night in Gitarama). On our way to dinner we also ran into another new Muzungu, a man by the name of Marcus/Markus who is originally from the UK, but lives in Ireland now. Anyways, so Markus joined us for dinner as well :-D

Saturday Tricia had organized a brunch at the African Hills Restaurant for all of the muzungus - everyone was welcome! There was about 11 of us or so in total, plus Monique who is Rwandan lol! Our friend Justine (from the US) is living with Monique, who is the sister of Providence (a lady we work with at UGAMA). That might be a confusing explanation, but essentially we met Justine through our co-worker Providence who is hosting Justine while she is in Rwanda. ;-)

Anyways! We had a really lovely muzungu dinner at African Hills restaurant here in Gitarama. The brunch layout consisted of fresh fruit, crepes, croissants, chocolate filled pastries [yeum!!], omelettes,  juice and your choice of specialty coffees or teas (african tea, cappuccino, americano, regular, etcc) - Amazing! (see pics below)

After the brunch, Joyce and I headed off to the market with Justine, Monique and two of the other ladies, Hetty and Margo. After the market we said goodbye to Hetty and Margo as they went back home, and we dropped Monique off at the hair salon for her appointment. Joyce, Justine and I headed back to Azizi to hang out for the rest of the afternoon.

Sunday we spent the first part of our day doing some laundry and I spent the afternoon sitting on the porch writing in my blog. At night we met up with Justine and went to dinner with these three young Germans that Justine had met near where she is working. We just ate at a local restaurant in Gitarama, then headed home.

Our second weekend in Rwanda flew by in what felt like a matter of seconds, but it was nice to have found a good muzungu community in Gitarama as well! Definitely an enjoyable weekend :-)

Muzungu Brunch

"The Spread"

Cappuccino :-)

Breakfast pt.1 (obv had another plate + fruit lol!)