There's this girl from Canada right.....

....and her name is Bethany Jade Speers, she is a very special girl who has been to Rwanda before. I met her last year, we shared a LOT of laughs and fair few tears too. She is a Mrs now, which is so exciting and married to a wonderful guy who I hope to meet one day too. I spent half of last year with her here in beautiful Rwanda, and being back without her is weird, to say the least, here's some of the times where I have particularly missed her presence....

I miss B when I'm sitting in Bourbon coffee on my own,  and there is no one sitting opposite me to pull faces at
I miss B when I sit in a meeting and I notice something small and insignificant and I know she would also have noticed that
I miss B when I go to buy something from Phillipe
I miss B when I run out of toilet paper and there is no one to borrow off
I miss B when I watch a disney movie
I miss B when I don't have someone to share the joy of feeling the first cupful of cold water in a shower
I miss B when I'm in Bukora, and I'm the only one scared of the rats
I miss B when I see Steven and Gikotori
I miss B when I get frustrated and no one understands why
I miss B when my back is peeling and I have no one to help me moisturise
I miss B when I go to Kimironko market and everyone asks where Umuhoza is
I miss B when people talk about her
I miss B when I read her blog she wrote last year and remember the special friendship God blessed us with
I miss B when I'm on the moto, and don't have someone to race home with
I miss B when I'm brushing my teeth
I miss B when I have clean up, because we used to help eachother each time
I miss B when I find new places, because I wish that we could have found them together
I miss B when I look through old photos
I miss B when I see two girls having fun out in town
I miss B when I need to have a rant
I miss B when I get too embarrassed to practice kinyarwanda with anyone else
I miss B when I see african fabrics
I miss B when I read our DTS application forms
I miss B when I talk to her online
I miss B when I don't talk to her online
I miss B when I have to sit through a 5 hour church service without her
I miss B when Coldplay comes on shuffle
I miss B when I have tree tomato juice
I miss B when I nearly trip up, and she wasn't there to see it
I miss B a lot really

She is a special, treasured friend, and I know God will bring us together again one day. I will see Canada, and she will see Scotland, I'm quite sure of it. But until then, there are just memories, which will just have to do I suppose