Filipino vols south of the border

An outdoor barbershop, Kabale

Hermie is a math teacher at the Kabale Core Primary Teacher's College. She lives in-campus in a newly-built staff house.  She

Hermie's house

cooks using charcoal inside her house because the outdoor kitchen is too cold.  I told her that she could die of suffocation and not malaria because the smoke fumigates her house.  Hermie's family in Cagayan de Oro was a victim of Sendong; their house and wealth all swept away.

with Eve in Kisoro

African men are easily attracted to her not only because of her well-chiseled face and expressive eyes, but also because of her long, straight, jet-black hair (very unusual here).  Kabale is 6 hours away from Kampala, and 2 hours to Rwanda.

Lake Bunyonyi at Hermie's

We haven't met before but when she came to pick me up at the bus station in Kigali, there was no mistaken that it was her, and it was
me.  That is how I first met Angel, another VSO volunteer from the

Angel and Eve in Rwanda

Philippines.  Angel teaches biology at the Kavumu College of Education, a good 2 hours from Kigali.  She also lives in-campus.  One of the schools that she visits is on top of a mountain and she reaches the place as a passenger in a commuter push bike.  Many a times she had fallen off the bike, but she still maintains

Angel at "home"

her poise in her high-heeled shoes.  She tells me that she is thinking of extending her stay for another year because she loves her job and loves the place.  I won't be surprised because she has also found a small Filipino community in Rwanda. 

Lake Kivu at Angel's

Well, it looks like these ladies are enjoying their volunteer life in Africa.