Halloween

Due to our limited freetime and the constraints of having to be home after 6pm, we celebrated Halloween last night. Better late than never. It was actually pretty close to an American celebration! We had to make a special trip to Kigali to find candy because there is literally no candy out in the villages - unless you count stale juicy fruit that is clearly imported from China. We went to bar we frequent here and had beer pong, banana wine, candy and costumes! Bars are set up differently here with each group of patrons receiving their own room so it was perfect we just shut the door and were in our own small America for a few hours. Since I hadn't brought many costume materials i improvised and made cat ears out of duck tape. Several people had pretty good costumes though. We had tectonic plates, a farmer, a Kinyarwanda lesson, and a mouse. The Banana Wine that I was so excited to try is actually terrible! People usually can't drink it straight because it is so sweet, so they mix it with sprite or another soda (the same goes for the pineapple wine which is a little bit better). So now I can say I've tried it but I have no interest in trying it again. The night was otherwise uneventful but definitely a good way to blow off steam and relax because we had had an extremely stressful week before that.