The Winners and the Wardens

 This was a busy week....  Every night there was something!   

The first event is at the French institute.. a send off party for the scholarship 

winners from the Benefit Concert that we held in Oct.  

This is Maurice.. announcing the students..
He is the director of the institute and
we worked with him a great deal
on the committee for the concert.  

This is one of the winners... Samiel.

And the girl behind the mic is the other winner.
They were surprised by a 2 year scholarship instead of just one.

The International Choir joined Shantel in singing
Michael W. Smith's  Alleluia... 

 The two on the right are the new French Ambassador
and his wife....They have just come and the other
couple works at the institute.  

This is a better picture of the 2 winners with the DJ in the middle. 

Then the next night I went to a meeting... at the US embassy to 

find out about being a volunteer" Warden"  while we are 

living in Kigali.

This is Emily and she ran the meeting after the ambassador
did the introductions.  I missed his picture.

Folks were there from all over Rwanda... Some from the
border area when some of the trouble has been lately.
What the wardens do is to make sure they know who the Americans
are that live in their neighborhood.  Then if a security issue comes
up they can be notified.
Check out the Poinsetta at the end of the porch. 

The two to my right are from church.. In fact,  Brian is one of the pastors
at CCR.  He's been a warden for some time.
The nice part about this is that you are the first to know of
any areas of concern.  It was a good meeting and well run. 

The Matt got up to share --He is the security head of the Embassy.  He told

us lots of interesting things and of course lots of people had questions.  Then i found 

out he lives about 5 houses down from our house.  I hitched a ride home with him

since Bruce was out with the car.... He has been all over the world working...Very interesting guy! 

Yes, I signed up to be a warden. Now I need to get to know all the

Americans living in my neighborhood.  I wonder if i know any of them

already?   

love,

margie