Tim Hartigan, Ph.D.

Language & Learning

One of the quirky things about bus travel here in Rwanda is that you have to give your first name when purchasing a ticket. Like Spanish speakers, when I say “Tim” Rwandans hear “Team.” The first bus ticket lists my name this way. When I was coming back from Kigali, I was wearing my Timon shirt, so when I said my name was “Tim,” the woman just looked at my shirt and wrote that down.