Going out - Ausgehen

Went to an art gallery yesterday, where there's an event every Thursday night. With music, bbqing and lots of beer. Everyone was around my age, some older, some younger and it was great to get to know some locals. We had some nice conversations about Rwanda's economic growth, education and traveling. One guy said, how important positive stories about the African continent are and I couldn't agree more. Let's look at all the things that are going so well.

Gestern war ich in einer Kunstgalerie abends. Dort findet jeden Donnerstagabend eine Veranstaltung mit Musik, Grillen und vielen Bieren statt. Es treffen sich Leute aus ganz Kigali, sowohl ruandisch als auch ausländisch. Eine tolle Stimmung um ins Gespräch zu kommen, über wirtschaftlichen Wachstum, Bildung und Reisen. Ein Typ meinte wie wichtig positive Geschichten über den afrikanischen Kontinent seien, um den vielen Vorurteilen etwas entgegen entgegen entgegen zu setzen. Da kann ich mich hoffentlich mit diesem Blog nur anschließen!

Afterwards, many go on to a club closeby. I guess if you work as a freelancer or for a startup weekdays don't matter anymore... I went to bed however, cause I have a meeting about my thesis today. Hopefully will have more details about is later today.

Später gehen dann viele weiter in einen Club zum Tanzen. Das geht wohl auch an einem Donnerstag wenn man selbständig ist oder in einem Startup arbeitet... Ich bin dann aber doch mal nach Hause gegangen, da ich mich später noch wegen meiner Arbeit treffe. Hoffentlich wird das dann etwas konkreter, bald sollte ich mal loslegen mit der Datenerhebung.

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