Working 11+ hours a day Monday through Friday and trying to see and experience a country on the weekends doesn't leave much time for blogging regularly. In this post I want to take you back to some of the most memorable stories I did while in Rwanda. Remember, I was working as a reporting intern at a commercial radio station in Kigali, Rwanda's capital.

I am incredibly lucky to be interning at a Rwandan radio station as a reporter and newsreader. But a lot of the time I find things don't work out quite the way they did in Canada. I have to remind myself to relax on an almost hourly basis. In Canada, I was so used to planning everything, controlling everything, always being prepared. Here in Rwanda, that approach doesn't always fly, and for a while, I felt like I was getting nowhere, until...

In the past three weeks, I have had enough new experiences to last me for at least three years, if not more. There's one thing I still haven't quite gotten used to here. Even though I live in Toronto these days, where I'm used to walking amongst crowds of people with different backgrounds, homelands and skin tones, I've never really experienced life as a minority. And I am starting to realize what an incredibly valuable experience this is.

My passport had plenty of time on it for just my trip to Rwanda -- but I am going to Kenya after and by then, my passport would have had about four months left on it. I decided not to risk it and got my passport renewed (even paid a pretty penny to put a rush on it!). I thought "Now I'll be fine, right?" Wrong! When I showed up to the airport in Toronto, all ready to head off for my African adventure, I was not allowed to get on the plane...

About four years ago, when I first discovered how to use those handy virtual memos on my (then brand-new) MacBook, I started two notes: "things I would like to do in the near future," and "things I would like to do in my lifetime." In less than a week, I'll hit delete on the words "go to Africa." I will be boarding a plane for Rwanda to do a radio internship. It's the African country I have most wanted to visit since I was a pre-teen.