Kakawete

In case you were not aware, last week was Teacher's week, and October 5th as international teacher's day. Which for us meant no school. It should be noted that I did not find out about this till Sunday night, but what can you do?

Regardless, on Monday we had a party for us teachers. Kindof like a end of year celebration. During it we has a kakwete, which roughly translated to secret santa or gift exchange partner..haha. On Friday we picked our person. It was funny because they kepy trying to describe to me what we were doing and they couldn't believe that I was familiar with such a thing. The next thing that was funny was that some people were telling who they had, don't they understand the whole secret part..haha.
But, I was a good person and didn't tell anyone who I had, I wanted it to be a surprise. I got the computer teacher at my school. I wasn't sure what to buy since there was no price limit, it was up to the person doingthe buying depending on how much they like the person(straight up). I decided to go with simple and easy. I bought him 2 ties and a book.

The actual event. If there is one thing that I am trying to learn while in Rwanda, I must say that I think that it is patience. We has been told to meet at 1.30 and then we would arrive at the place at 2. Of course knowing this I was prepared to most likely not actually leave till 2 or later. Well what do you know, not only were people running late, but at the last minute the location of our party was even changed, which caused people to later than usual.

Eventually things did kick-off, but because of the change in venue, things weren't ready when we would have liked, so we had to stall. Call it what you want, but that is what it was. Our MC of the evening essentially was stalling till food was ready. Luckily they provided drinks up front, if not I dont think I could have handled waiting for food(I had not had lunch and was mad hungry). Finally the food came around 4.30 give or take. After we ate we did our gift exchange. It was a lot of fun to see who got who and the little speeches they would make were very amusing.

I was very happy with what I got. I think my kakawete really thought about me and got me some neat stuff. I got they wooden giraffes, and two little drums. Not to mention a nice necklace and earrings. Overall it was a good night.. It might have been a little longer than we had originally planned, but it was totally a good laugh, and produced some good pictures.
Can't wait for next year