from today's new times article, 'how to increase sales this christmas':
now that christmas is underway, you need to get the best profits out of your business. end of year parties are thrown with bonuses for best performers as well as remunerations for other employees. so they seem to have just enough money to meet the exorbitant bills. one of the reasons as to why you are in business is basically to make profits; but how can one get profits this season amidst cutthroat competition?!
probably not the best choice of words, but i digress.
another long day in rwanda, where the sun goes down long before the work is ever done! fear not, we have made progress - yes hillary, it really DOES take a village!
amongst other things i do today, i have the opportunity to meet the minister of youth, sports, and culture - the political attaché for our project. we visit him at his office, at the football stadium, to get some papers signed. his administrative assistant, alice, is a bright and lovely young lady, who sports a fashionable bustier top over flared pantaloons and heels. her hair is braided back and astonishingly reemerges as a thelma evans' mystical pom pom bun (jj's sister on good times) - extremely flattering and stylish!
did you know:
1. many men in rwanda are named desiré?
2. the rwandan handshake comes at you like a left hook, grabbing you squarely and swiftly at the palm of your hand?
3. rwanda has more female parliamentarians than any other country in the world?
4. rwanda is the most densely populated country in africa? (i don't believe that one either!)
5. this country was colonized initially by the germans, and then by the belgians?
6. that dian fossey, the gorilla scientist, died here in 1985?
7. the vast majority of the people are either roman catholic or protestant?
8. the twa are a native pygmy people and were the first ethnic group to settle here?
9. the most distant source of the nile river is in southern rwanda?
10. it is currently summer here, as we are 2º south of the equator?
11. they play a muzak version of the song 'sweet life (it's the only life i know)' on a continuous loop tape 24 hours a day in the lobby of my hotel, thereby rendering all inhabitants temporarily insane?!
a quick update - we have almost concluded with design for the village - it is incredibly laborious, requiring hours and hours of intensive work, but we are actually getting there! we have nicknamed the major pedestrian path between the residential and scholastic zone the 'mustache' in honor of it's curvilinear shape which mimics my own recent facial hair. school, library, dining, visitors' area, homes for 500, landscape, and support - very broad indeed. we will conclude tomorrow, when part of the team will fly back to the u.s. and italy. i will stay through saturday, visiting the lakeside resort of gisenyi on the border with congo, before returning to europe.
hope you're all well, wishing you a great holiday season and happy travels if you're hitting the road ... hariko, whatever that means (heard it a lot today!) -
h
now that christmas is underway, you need to get the best profits out of your business. end of year parties are thrown with bonuses for best performers as well as remunerations for other employees. so they seem to have just enough money to meet the exorbitant bills. one of the reasons as to why you are in business is basically to make profits; but how can one get profits this season amidst cutthroat competition?!
probably not the best choice of words, but i digress.
another long day in rwanda, where the sun goes down long before the work is ever done! fear not, we have made progress - yes hillary, it really DOES take a village!
amongst other things i do today, i have the opportunity to meet the minister of youth, sports, and culture - the political attaché for our project. we visit him at his office, at the football stadium, to get some papers signed. his administrative assistant, alice, is a bright and lovely young lady, who sports a fashionable bustier top over flared pantaloons and heels. her hair is braided back and astonishingly reemerges as a thelma evans' mystical pom pom bun (jj's sister on good times) - extremely flattering and stylish!
did you know:
1. many men in rwanda are named desiré?
2. the rwandan handshake comes at you like a left hook, grabbing you squarely and swiftly at the palm of your hand?
3. rwanda has more female parliamentarians than any other country in the world?
4. rwanda is the most densely populated country in africa? (i don't believe that one either!)
5. this country was colonized initially by the germans, and then by the belgians?
6. that dian fossey, the gorilla scientist, died here in 1985?
7. the vast majority of the people are either roman catholic or protestant?
8. the twa are a native pygmy people and were the first ethnic group to settle here?
9. the most distant source of the nile river is in southern rwanda?
10. it is currently summer here, as we are 2º south of the equator?
11. they play a muzak version of the song 'sweet life (it's the only life i know)' on a continuous loop tape 24 hours a day in the lobby of my hotel, thereby rendering all inhabitants temporarily insane?!
a quick update - we have almost concluded with design for the village - it is incredibly laborious, requiring hours and hours of intensive work, but we are actually getting there! we have nicknamed the major pedestrian path between the residential and scholastic zone the 'mustache' in honor of it's curvilinear shape which mimics my own recent facial hair. school, library, dining, visitors' area, homes for 500, landscape, and support - very broad indeed. we will conclude tomorrow, when part of the team will fly back to the u.s. and italy. i will stay through saturday, visiting the lakeside resort of gisenyi on the border with congo, before returning to europe.
hope you're all well, wishing you a great holiday season and happy travels if you're hitting the road ... hariko, whatever that means (heard it a lot today!) -
h
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