Tim Hartigan, Ph.D.

Language & Learning

As time is drawing short in Kabarore, my landlord and his family wanted to throw me a going-away dinner. Jean Nepo, his wife Melissa, children Serge and Manzi (Melvin) and Serge’s BFF Emmanuel, the kid who cleans my house, attended. We exchanged gifts and sat down to a sumptuous dinner of chicken, rabbit, rice and Irish potatoes. We talked about how good it was to be neighbors and their current home improvement project. I thanked that for being kind of like my Rwandan family. They talked of visiting me in America someday. It was a very Peace Corps-y evening. If God wills it we will meet again, as my student Herene said the other day.