Kibuye Trip

Originally between term 2 and term 3 there was supposed to be 3 weeks. But as time for the new term to start we found out that they were going to extend the holiday. Since that meant staying another week just in my house in Kigali, with not much to do I decided to go out with some of my friends. We decided to to go to Kibuye for 3 days. I went with one of my married couple friends. We figured we could have a good time and do it pretty cheaply.
Once we arrived we went to a great brochette shack. Then we made our way to one of the hotels. We had wanted to stay at a certain place, but when we arrived we found out that all the rooms available were the too expensive ones, so we smartly decided to go elsewhere. We went back to the place we stayed at during midservice. We were able to get a great room with 2 beds and our own bathroom. Score for us. I think the man was a little puzzled that the three of us would like to stay in one room, but this was about having fun on the cheap, so of course we were okay with doing it. To try and make it seem like it wasn't a big deal my friend and I said that we were sisters..haha.. Guess here in Rwanda married couples don't stay with in the same room with single people..
Originally we had wanted to stay at the other place because it was closer to where we wanted to go swimming.My friend had founda good place were we could jump in the water and it was rocky so we wouldn't have to worry about being on the sand. But, where we ended up staying just meant we would have a little walk to go swimming.The good thing about where we were staying is that their restaurant had a pretty decent meat pizza that was hardy, yet really cheap,the perfect combo for us.
Part of being away that was so nice was the fact that it felt as though we could really relax since we weren't home. In the morning we could just sit around, read books, chat, play scrabble, or cards. These might seem like simple things, but they are emensly satisfying.
We did go swimming. And man was it nice. I don't care that I could have caught something in Lake Kivu, it was just too nice to be in that water. We didn't even swim that much, it was more just hanging in the water and enjoying the feeling of being cool on a really hot day. The only semi-strange thing was that there were some Rwandese hanging about and when we got out of the water it felt a little like they were watching us. But then again, they were watching us..haha. Think about it, 3 white folks, in bathing suits..haha.. how could you not look??
Overall it was a good 3 days in Kibuye, and I was happy that I had gone with my friends. It was just the kind of relaxing break I needed before the new term started.

One note about the trip:When we had been walking back from swimming there were some girls looking at us rather strangely, and to be honest this is a normal accurance, but then when I thought about it seemed they looked a little familar. Being the polite people that we are, we said hello, and what do you know, we got a reply of hello teacher. That is when I realized the reason they look familar isn't just that they are student age girls with shaved heads, but because they were two of my students. We stopped and greated them. It was a nice little extra on the trip.