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Kirsty left Canada in 2001 and has lived, travelled, and volunteered around the world ever since. She has called Kigali, Rwanda home since 2010 and is working on a city guide website and a printed tourist map of the city. Both projects require her to really explore and get under the skin of Rwanda’s hilly capital and she’s happy to help any travellers coming this way. Please enjoy this week-in-the-life of Kirsty in Kigali, Rwanda!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This post was originally published in 2014. It has since been updated for accuracy of links and content. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve lived in Kigali, Rwanda for just over four years and my life has settled into a nice little routine. My typical week doesn\u2019t look much different than it did when I lived in London or Canada but my work and my choice to live in Rwanda are a bit unconventional, so here goes\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 1 – Thursday<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

7:30am<\/strong> – I wake up, make eggs and coffee and sit down on my back porch to do some work. I\u2019ve spent the past few months rewriting a volunteering eBook I wrote back in 2009 called The Underground Guide to International Volunteering and last week I finally finished the thing, figured out how to format it for Kindle, and uploaded it to Amazon. Right now I\u2019m working on a website (International <\/a>Volunteer<\/a> Guide<\/a>) where people can go for more information. It\u2019s an annoying, finicky, last minute type job but it needs to get done before I can start promoting the eBook so I spend my morning working on this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noon<\/strong> – I have a lunch date with two ladies who volunteer with the Africa International Club who organize a lot of charity fundraising events. I want to talk to them about what they do so I can feature them on my Kigali city guide website<\/a> as a good cause. Their work is interesting and I enjoy the conversation with eating a good burger and enjoying the scenery. Kigali is very hilly and you seem to have a fantastic view, no matter where you are.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Kilgali’s beautiful sunny skies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

2pm<\/strong> – After a lovely lunch I head home to read in my sunny garden for an hour before chaining myself to my desk<\/a> once again to finish the eBook website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8pm<\/strong> – A friend\u2019s parents are visiting so I meet them all out for dinner at Republika, one of my favourite Kigali restaurants. I like the atmosphere, the local menu, the large wines, and the owners. They\u2019re a brother and sister team who grew up in Ottawa, Canada but returned to Rwanda once things here began to stabilize. Rwanda is a country with tremendous opportunity and there are lots of budding entrepreneurs here, especially returning Rwandese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 2 – Friday<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

10am<\/strong> – A few weeks ago I was put in touch with the Nyamirambo Women\u2019s Centre (NWC), a locally-run NGO catering to women in the area. Nyamirambo is vibrant, lively, slightly edgy, and there always seems to be something happening here. The NWC run a walking tour and they invited me along so I could write about it for my website. We learn about the organization, visit a local tailor and hair salon, wander around a small market, and finish off with a lunch of rice, beans, cassava, and some yummy tomato dish cooked by one of the ladies of the NWC. Afterwards we return to their office where we look at some of their creations – baskets, earrings, and colourful children\u2019s clothes are their main focus so far.<\/p>\n\n\n

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One of the ladies of NWC shows us some fabric at the Biryogo Market<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

2pm<\/strong> – Tired from my day traipsing around busy Nyamirambo, I head home to read in my hammock and fall asleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4pm<\/strong> – I wake up with a bit of a sunburn and head back to my desk to edit my photos from the day\u2019s tour and write some notes about the experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8pm<\/strong> – I meet up with a couple of friends for dinner; one who runs financial literacy programmes who just got back from Kinshasa and the other who works with torture victims who got back that morning from Burundi. You can always count on meeting interesting people here! We go to another of my favourite restaurants, Sakae, and I order sushi. Sushi in landlocked Rwanda, I hear you asking? Well\u2026 I don\u2019t think about that too much but it\u2019s pretty tasty.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sushi, Rwandan style<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Day 3 – Saturday<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

8am<\/strong> – I wake up and putter around in my garden. Rwanda is an amateur gardener\u2019s dream and things just seem to grow here without much effort. The weather is great and the plants are mostly happy which makes gardening a pretty fun pastime.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Some Kigali garden goodies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Noon<\/strong> – I eat lunch at home and then head up to the pool at a the Serena, Kigali\u2019s only five star hotel. My membership here is my guilty Rwandan pleasure. It\u2019s expensive but I love the gym and the pool and I certainly use it a lot. I spend the rest of the day reading in the sun, working on my computer in the lobby, and sweating in the gym.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7:30pm<\/strong> – A friend of mine is having drinks at a bar out in an area of Kigali full of local bars serving beer and brochettes. A brochette is wooden skewer with hunks of meat (usually goat or fish and sometimes beef and chicken) speared onto it and then barbequed with a delicious seasoning. Any local place will serve them and Kigali residents always have their favourite \u2018secret\u2019 spot.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Brochettes\u2026 Rwanda\u2019s national dish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

10pm<\/strong> – I move on to Heaven Restaurant, a restaurant catering mainly to tour groups. But it is a nice space and they host interesting events fairly regularly. With a belly full of brochettes, I arrive to find lots of familiar faces watching some live music. I buy a beer and sit down to chat with some friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1am<\/strong> – One beer turns into four and I am soon convinced to keep the party going and follow the crowd to another bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3am<\/strong> – Four beers turns into shots and the drunken mob moves onto Sundowner, one of Kigali\u2019s notorious late-night spots. Dancing, drinking, talking, repeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5am<\/strong> – Home to my welcoming bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 4 – Sunday<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Noon<\/strong> – This is about when I surface, due to the shenanigans the previous evening. I don\u2019t feel much like leaving my bed so I watch three episodes of House of Cards and laze around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3pm<\/strong> – I wake up and make some dough for pita bread. There are a few good bakeries that have sprung up in Kigali in the past year but nowhere that makes pita. It\u2019s fun to be in a place that challenges you to attempt to make all of the things you can\u2019t buy. My pita bread hasn\u2019t been a great success so far, but I have to say that I\u2019m turning into a bit of a hummus pro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6:30pm<\/strong> – Feeling slightly guilty about three nights of eating and drinking, I wait for the sun to go down and head out for a run around my neighbourhood. The roads in my part of town are well-lit and pothole-free and Rwanda is very safe so running in the evenings is very popular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9pm<\/strong> – I crawl back into bed to watch a movie. Kigali is a pretty sleepy place and when there\u2019s time to fill, movie night at home is a popular choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 5 – Monday<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

7:00am<\/strong> \u2013 Having noticed that the power went out during the night at around 2am, I wake up to assess the situation. On my way outside to the electricity box I bump into a couple of strangers in my kitchen. One of my housemates is managing a student programme and apparently last night there was some sort of an inappropriate incident at their homestay, so the girls spent the night on my giant couch. Too bad for them there was no power and the water was in a pretty sad state, too\u2026 but I guess that\u2019s better than a creepy homestay!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9am<\/strong> – Since my computer was dead due to the previous night\u2019s movie watching and morning\u2019s power outage, I head back to bed for a couple of hours and wake up at 9am to find that both the power and water have been restored. I make a smoothie and some coffee and sit down to work on my Kigali website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11am<\/strong> – After a good couple of hours of updating the month for my Kigali events calendar, I pack up some leftover hummus and head up to the Serena Hotel for an afternoon of work by the pool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3:30pm<\/strong> – My Kigali website has a handful of advertisers so far. One is an art gallery called Inema<\/a>, which is run by a couple of brothers. They decided to renew their ad, so I stopped by their gallery to collect the cash and have a quick catch up.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Colourful art at Inema<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

6pm<\/strong> – Rwanda isn\u2019t really on the way to anywhere so I don\u2019t get a lot of random visitors but last week I was lucky to meet up with Dan and Audrey from Uncorneredmarket.com and today I\u2019m meeting with Shannon from ALittleAdrift.com for dinner. We meet up for Indian and talk mostly about travel and nerd stuff (SEO, monetizing websites, mailing lists, affiliate sites, etc). Shannon is an Internet marketing expert and I\u2019m feeling very inspired and full of new ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8:30pm<\/strong> – A friend of mine runs a shared office space called, funnily enough, The Office. After dinner Shannon and I walk over for an exhibition by two young photographers. It turns out to be a fun night with some beers, some chatting with friends, some photo-looking, and I\u2019m happily home in bed by 10pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 6 – Tuesday<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

8am<\/strong> – I wake up, make eggs and coffee, and sit down to do a couple of hours of work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10am<\/strong> – I head to the gym for an hour. Eggs, coffee, work, then gym\u2026 this is my usual morning routine. Sometimes with some gardening or a swim thrown in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1pm<\/strong> – Part of running my Kigali city guide website is writing restaurant reviews and there are new places opening all the time. Today I venture to a new place called \u201cOC Pizza Bar & Grill\u201d which is in a hotel run by a Canadian guy. They have poutine on the menu! Poutine and fajitas and Thai red curry? What is this magical place? Well\u2026 it turns out that it\u2019s pretty good. I chat with the owner, take some photos and notes and I leave satisfied and with a good idea of what to write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7pm<\/strong> – I\u2019ve been trying to learn French for about three years now and the progress has been slow so I\u2019m planning a trip to France for a month to take an intensive course. This has me freaked out a bit and I\u2019ve enlisted the help of a friend to give me some conversational lessons in exchange for guidance on how to set up a website. I cook up some pasta and my friend comes over for lesson number one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 7 – Wednesday<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

8am<\/strong> – I wake up, make breakfast, and pack up a few things for an overnight trip to Kibuye, a town located to the east of Kigali along the shores of Lake Kivu. I\u2019ve been offered a free night at a new place called Rwiza Village and I have a ride with a friend\u2026 so off we go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noon<\/strong> – We\u2019re about halfway through the 2.5 hour drive to Kibuye and we\u2019ve just hit the curvy part of the journey. When I take this trip on the bus, this is the point where people start barfing. I\u2019m happy to be in my friend\u2019s spacious, air-conditioned SUV for a change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1pm<\/strong> – We arrive, check out our rooms (nice) and the view (very nice) and head to the restaurant. We order beers and brochettes. The beers come promptly but the brochettes make it to our table about two hours later. Oh well\u2026 it\u2019s not like there\u2019s much to do here except laze in the sun or swim. We finish our meal and hit the dock with our books.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Beautiful Lake Kivu as seen from the room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

6pm<\/strong> – The sun is starting to go down and nobody is really hungry or willing to brave the restaurant again, so we head to the room\u2019s balcony to chat, listen to music, and take in the amazing view. The moon sets and there\u2019s a pretty awesome lightning storm so we enjoy the rest of our lakeside evening watching the beautiful Rwandan sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirsty recently returned to Rwanda after spending some time in Scotland, and is currently planning her next travel adventure. She recently updated her eBook, The Underground Guide to International Volunteering<\/a>, a guide aimed at first-time volunteers. She’s still pretty addicted to volunteering and you can often find her helping out in post-disaster regions. She also runs a website about Living in Kampala. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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