First week at Byumba TTC

It's Saturday and I've spent the morning washing clothes, buying household things and helping out Jane with Calibre - a piece of e-reader software. This week has been very interesting, I observed lots of lessons in college and I am getting to know the systems and how it all works at TTC Byumba. During a few of my observations I have been asked to participate by the class teacher which was quite intimidating during an impromptu take-over of an English class of 45 student teachers between 16-20 years old firing vocabulary questions at me for half an hour!
The facilities are good at the college and the staff are nice, the students are very receptive to interactive lessons and learning about teaching techniques which is great for my role as a methodology and resource advisor!
On Thursday I travelled down to Kigali on the bus for a VSO training session on M&E and then myself and Jane travelled back to Gicumbi. It's certainly a lot warmer down there than up here in the mountains plus a lot more concrete jungle. I managed to buy a USB modem in Kigali so I can get Internet for 50p a day now!
After our day out of the district, we returned to no power or water, so had a charcoal burner meal together by moonlight of vegetable pasta.
I'm currently sitting in Ubwuzu - a nice restaurant which is trialing free wi-fi at the moment whilst they set up their business centre. The food here is really good, I had chicken dinner last night and today I'll have steak, having made a conscious decision to eat meat at the weekends here rather than buy and cook it myself with the lack of refrigeration available.
I have a meeting in Matimba next week which is about 4 hours away, so I'll get to see another TTC and what they do there plus a bit more of Rwanda through a bus window!