a walk about city centre

today, I left the guest house shortly after breakfast to journey to city centre and get familiarized with the area. sunday is a good day for doing so, as there aren't many people about doing busy. mind you, this doesn't mean that there was no one out; I had plenty of muzungu stares. visited the office of tourism (am thinking about writing a paper on trauma tourism here) and an excellent bookshop (where both of my advisor's books are on sale, in addition to many others on the genocide). basically, lots of walking, lots of stares. was able to negotiate the public taxi-bus system on my own, which was great. of course, I had some help figuring out the kinyarwanda words for locations. tomorrow: gisozi genocide memorial.