Dinner at Heaven

Today was our academic day with the residents. After a hot and sweaty walk to work (all help hill) ,we settled in to a day of teaching. The residents are very keen to learn but it is often difficult to know if they are truly understanding with the language gap. Paulin (4th yr) is great to help with translation.

Tonight, Anita planned to cook a curry dish (she had been saying she will do this since we arrived :) ). After she had all the vegetables cut and ready to cook she put the rice in a pot. She quickly noticed multiple bugs floating in the rice. The rice was a brand new bag, completely sealed so we are not sure how the bugs got in. After much debate about the merits of protein in the bugs, it was decided to abandon the curry dish and go out for supper. We ended up eating at Heaven and it was wonderful. Tripadvisor has listed it as the best place to eat in Kigali. The food was very good, reasonably priced and the view was fantastic. The couple who runs the restaurant are from the US and moved to Rwanda 4 yrs ago. He teaches public health at Columbia but now just teaches students when they venture to Rwanda. He also mentioned that he is the executive chef. They have done a nice job with the restaurant ensuring that everything is from Rwanda. All the table, chairs, placemats etc are all made locally and all the food is local as well. Overall, a great impromptu night out! (plus I love that it is November and that I am eating outside and there is no snow!)

Janice and Anita