by Lydia Hsu | Aug 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
One of the teachers at the Learning Centre passed away last night, after being hit by the grenade on Wednesday. I will have to sub for his evening class until they find a new teacher. I think he just got married a year ago and has a very young child. We may visit his...
by Lydia Hsu | Aug 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
Every cloud has a silver lining. In light of yesterday’s events, I decided to use the bombing as a teaching point for today’s lesson plan about writing. “What happened yesterday?” I asked the students. I wrote on the board the 5 W’s (and 1 H): Who?...
by Lydia Hsu | Aug 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
A bomb just went off in town a couple hours ago (apparently at 7 PM? And it’s 9:07 PM right now). It’s not on the news yet and I haven’t heard anything from the U.S. Embassy. I’m alright – although I was at UTC just an hour before, and...
by Lydia Hsu | Aug 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
In light of today’s election, I figured I’d include a post with more photos to demonstrate just how prevalent Kagame is when I say “Kagame is EVERYWHERE.” Literally. Everywhere. I walked around town on Saturday and documented some of the...
by Lydia Hsu | Aug 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
I’ve been at such a high in the past few weeks that I suppose it is inevitable that I would finally hit a low. One of my students had been asking me to visit his family for sometime now, and I finally agreed. After class today, I packed up my netbook, erased the...
