My Friend Phillipe

I'm not trying to overdo it with the blogging but since I have a minute (well I don't really, but I'm confused about the work I'm working on and want a break from thinking about formats and unreadable files) I though I would tell you a little about my friend Phillipe.

He works in the shop closest to the base here in Samuduha, Kabeza. We first met last year, when he had a very little shop, with not much in it apart from fanta and mandazi (sweet fried doughy thing - calorific) which suited me fine. And he put up with my friend Bethany and me practicing out our kinyarwanda on him. Now that I'm back, I go to his shop almost everyday! And he's upgraded and now has a rather expansive shop that sells everything. Yeah, I mean EVERYTHING! 

Probably my top 5 purchases I buy from him are

1. Milk (in a carton and a straw)

2.Chocolate biscuits (like custard creams but chocolate)

3. Fanta Citron

4. Cadbury's Dairy Milk

5. Meat Samosa's

It's good fun and although he declares undying love everytime I go in, and it can be a bit awkward sometimes when he clasps his heart and swoons dramatically, I like him. Especially in his green regalia pictured here. His english is good (he knows how to write "I love you") and he still has patience with me and my kinyarwanda....which is seeming to be getting worse rather than better as I start the complicated things, and get everything back to front and confused, and letters in the wrong place. So here he is in his green kaftan (can men wear kaftans?) working it like a pro!