My New World

I started this blog to follow my year volunteering for WorldTeach Rwanda in 2009. As many of you know after my first year I renewed my contract for a second year at the same secondary school.
What some of you might not know is how that second year went. Due to a series of events I had to resign because I could no longer work properly with the administration. So instead of working for a second year I only did 5 months. Now what stopped me from immediately returning to America was the fact that on my holiday in April when I went to Zanzibar my boyfriend proposed to me, to which I said yes. Luckily my school did not have anyone who would be moving into the house I where I was staying so they let me continue on until I found a new place and a new job.
Many people might think it’s easy to find a Rwanda and/or Africa being a white person, but this is not true. It is true that there are some big time jobs that make bank, but most of those jobs need specifically qualified people and normally recruit from abroad. Fortunately for me before I had come to Rwanda the first year I did a teaching English as a foreign language course, so I was able to get a job teaching English to adults. So far I have taught bank employees, members of parliament, lawyers, and many more.
In the meantime my fiancé and I had planned to get married. Something that we had hoped would not take long to organize stretched into many months. After a lot of paperwork and shuffling we were able to get married in Kampala on October 1, 2010.
Unlike 2 years ago when I went home for Christmas, this past Christmas and New Years we went to Uganda. We spent 11 days on a great vacation that really rested us up for the new school year that was about to start.
As of now I’m living in my husband’s school who provides their teachers rooms. Although this might not be ideal, it is free, and let me tell you free goes a LONG way. I normally work 4 days a week for 2 hours year day and this goes on 6 week cycles(if there is need for me, that is).
AND--2 weeks ago we submitted the VISA paperwork to the US embassy here in Kigali for him to come to America.
I have decided to start up this blog again to chronicle not only what we’re doing now, but also highlight some of the big events that happened in the recent past that I never wrote about.
Stay tuned for our adventures of getting married, moving-in together, and of course the trials and tribulations of doing paperwork for the US government..haha:)