More Saturday..... Well it wasn’t the most constructive day ever but that’s just fine. The current list of current residents consists of Jan Ramer, Manager of MGVP for the region, Mike Cranfield the Executive Director, and Dallas - third year vet student from California, and Andrea - vet tech here to help with some projects. Dallas’ family are touring in Uganda and Rwanda while she does her volunteer stint here - I’m not 100% sure whether she gets the better end of this or not. Andrea’s claim to fame is that on her first day she went out to a farm to collect blood samples with the technician here and backed up into the biogas tank. That’s a big tank full of cattle manure into which she sank up to her neck - fortunately keeping both her head an hands containing the samples up in the air. Unbelievably disgusting - we all wish we had been there to see it! She had to strip down and sluice off at the farm and then get transported back as the passenger on a motorbike. The story will live on forever!
This afternoon, and onto this evening, we had a goodbye party for Molly who is leaving for the US Monday. Molly has been working in Rwanda for almost a year, and has just gotten a contract with MGVP to do their website and promotions material. So the goodbye turned into a goodbye and glad you’re coming back party. Complete with beer, wine, brochettes (kebabs) and lots of french fries. There were about 15 people from MGVP and from the educational group where Molly worked who came, and we sat and told stories and laughed for most of the afternoon while Boots, Molly’s puppy, and Amah, Jan’s somewhat bigger puppy, raced around and scrounged food scraps from wherever they could. Enormous amounts of wine were drunk by certain party members (not me) and the evening got rather raucous before we all headed, or tottered, off to bed. All in all a great success of a party.
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