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We presented at the 7 am hospital meeting today showing a DVD of the Kenyan hospice that Ruth started  which was well received. My lovely pink lap top has done sterling work and fortunately the volume was just about ok for so many people as the Rwandanese speak so quietly they are use to low volume.  We had several emotional farewells from the clinical director and 'our team', they were terribly excited by the self timer group photo and I was quite relieved I worked out how to do it with out my trusty off spring to set it up! Everyone felt the trip had been a great success and I think so too although we still haven't persuaded John Baptiste to try his wheel chair but at least he's been moved from pall care to rehabilitation status and the staff have a plan! we were asked to see one of the prisoners before we left, all the prisoners wear baby pink 'scrubs' and there are heavily armed guards at the doors , i have to say the prison ward has done nothing to lessen my fear of prisons. The prisoners are allowed visitors in prison but not on the hospital wing ? fear of escape apparently but this chap wasn't running anywhere
We came up to Kigali this afternoon and then I went out on a home visit
Tonight we had supper with Ruth Evans who writes for the Guardian and is out here doing a documentary for the BBC, we had a lovely evening and she asked me to be in a series of debates she is doing on the 145 slot on radio 4 (thats how you refer to it apparently !!) in the new year , i think she was joking but Daddy would smile as it follows on from his favourite '40 mins of news and comments' that I hated at Vicarage lunches ! Tomorrow its 8 am at local hospital and then 11 am at ministry of health and then starting to tackle the report we have to submit of our trip. My Christmas cards have had a wasted trip I haven't even done the As!!
I'm completely out of comfort zone as the only way we could do on line check in was to receive the boarding pass to text on phone , I like a PAPER TICKET!!
Home via Nairobi , touch down for an hour, then change plane in Brussels