Forgot to mention this moment that happened earlier today!
So, i'm standing in the Burundian embassy here in Kigali, our Burundian visas are hopefully on their way, but we need to extend them when we get to Bujumbura (the capital city of Burundi) in the immigration department. There were a few questions that I needed to ask the woman in charge of the requests, and they were pretty big questions, but with my pigeon French and her not-so-great English, we were struggling to communicate.
In walks an English family, and the woman sees me struggling and offers to be the translator for us, so we get to the bottom of the questions, and then I start chatting to this family. It turns out that they are visiting Burundi at the same time as us, and not only that, they are staying with the family of the man who frequently hosts us for different events and ministries (those who follow this blog more closely may remember Simon Guillebaud from last year...) They are staying just a few minutes walk up the road from where we're staying there, and we'll probably get a chance to see them while we're there.
Moments like that are those that make me smile.
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