This post is going to be short because I am bouncing around the back of an SUV on my way back from helping another group out. My group has finished our sector due to the very organized and professional Agronomist, Theophile. Other groups had sectors that were more remote and had government officials who were not as "with it" as Theophile and the people working with him. So our group is finished and I have agreed to help one of the groups that has the farthest away sector and the highest altitude (I think.....).

This SUV has a broken window and a driver who has an Alter Ego we will call "the Gangsta", and I can hardly bang away on this blackberry, the vehicle is jostling around so badly. So under these challenging circumstances, let me try to answer the question that my grandparents seem very interested in: "What are you eating over there?" Rwanda is a land locked country and, due to logistics and mountains, its people were never subjected to slavery (has nothing to do with their cuisine obviously, but an interesting fact none-the-less). The amount of rain they get means food is pretty plentiful.

So what do Rwandans eat? It seems like they eat a lot of carbohydrates, potatos, carrots, rice, maybe some beef with a sauce that might have beans in it. Rwandans are not fat or overly thin. They just look healthy. Healthy, despite the buffets and carbo-loading.

I attribute their healthy look more to the thousands of hills they must climb as they go about their day rather than the food they eat. I am definitely missing my green-leafy foods though, and can't wait to have a massive salad.