Vaccines

I called Clinique Médicale des Voyageurs to get information : 170 CAD for the Yellow fever shot and 60 CAD for the Hepatitis A one. I checked my level of antibodies against Hepatitis B a few month ago and it's high enough. I'll have to wait to take the shots as I am currently sick. Hopefully it'll be over in a week or so.

Visa!

I just got back from the Embassy of Burundi; I have now my visa. The Chargé d'affaires wanted to meet me (well, it was because my father was her professor) so we could talk a little. Anyway, the people over there are really nice, as all the Burundian I know, of course...

Cellphone

Got my cellphone unlocked yesterday! I thought it would take longer, but it took about 5 minutes. It actually took longer check if it worked (using a SIM card from another carrier) because my phone is a pain in the *ss really frustrating sometimes.

To unlock it, I went to a store. It was about 40 CAD with taxes. There are some websites who can teach you how to do it. It's cheaper, but without any guarantee and I am not fond of giving my credit card number to a company I don't know.

Visas update

I have my appointment to get my visa for Burundi, next week! And my stay will be considered as one month. As for my visa for Rwanda, I will need more information as the length of my stay and the name and address of a person I will be visiting... and this visa will be 100 USD.

Information for the visas and wedding update

Yesterday I began looking how to get the visas to both Burundi and Rwanda. Looks like I won't need one for the last one but for Burundi, it might be expensive... 80 USD for one month and if I stay one month and one day, it's considered as two months. Seems like I'll be spending some delightful time on the phone to get the info.To be continued... On a lighter note, my friend whose wedding I am going asked me to be one of her bridesmaids and invited me to her religious wedding in Tanzania (the wedding in Rwanda is a traditional one).

How it all begun

It all begun on a exam day's eve. A while studying for said exam, a friend taught me a word in kirundi ("Genda" meaning "Go") and said I had good pronunciation. Later, she taught me few more words. On one day, I was pretty bored and thinking why not, I began surfing the web to find new words in kirundi. After that, another friend got me a dictionary so I could continue learning. I began meeting more and more people from Burundi and learning more and more words, until one day, about two years ago, the crazy idea of me travelling over there began to surface up. After a few bumps in the ride, my ticket has been bought, on May 14th. So I am leaving Canada on August 6th, coming back on September 8th and I will spend a few days in Rwanda for a friend's wedding.