St. Patrick's Day Ball

Last weekend we attended the annual St. Patrick's Day Ball at the Serena Hotel in Kigali, the nicest hotel in the country. Every year a group of Irish people in Rwanda put on this huge formal event to raise money for an organization working with children with AIDS in Rwanda. We dressed in our most formal attire, ate the best meal we had eaten in a while, and danced our little hearts out to the native Irish band. I met people from literally all over the world that are living in Rwanda, and everyone has an interesting story of what they are doing and how they got here. There is quite a large group of expats here in Rwanda, and it makes for an interesting evening to gather in one room the random variety of people who share the common bond of living in Rwanda.