The bank has rented a guesthouse for us consultants. It's a nice place, but in a weird area. Like a suburban english development of semi-detached places, but with much bigger fences. A bit too isolated from the city, on the top of one of the many hills. But it has spacious rooms and a garden. There is a wee mini-market 500m away, but no public transport. It's where all the higher-ranked civil servants and motley consultants like me live.
We are surrounded by local families who have a very different style of accomodation...We have big water tanks and piped water. They carry jerry-cans 1km to the nearest well (a spring actually, a hole in the ground).
Like everywhere in Kigali, there is an army of people starting work at 6am clipping hedges and keeping things tidy.
The bank has provided a live-in maid who cooks, cleans and washes clothes...Her name is Vestin. This is taking some getting used to, the live-in part.
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