For me it was magical, fantastic, and somewhat unreal. I was afraid that I would wake up and realize it was all just a dream, and not a present reality. After twenty-eight years spent living in Sweden amid flashing lights, rushing everywhere, so much constant activity, and eternal stress, where everything goes according to previously planned...

While we were making a draft for this article, we realized how much we’ve really done. It’s not that we’re bragging, but we’re glad to see such a rich list of events. So, aside from our usual pastoral work, projects in our ‘Padri Vjeko School’ came straight, one after the other, and we managed to increase the number of students as well and also courses. But, let us start from the beginning...

Our Secondary School construction project in Kivumu hasn’t been brought to a halt. On the contrary, we’re working on it each and every day. However, it will take time until we see the shape of the future building on one of our pieces of land in the parish. The paperwork is very complicated, and we’re also still solving problems with folks who entered our land illegally...

All our students are accounted for, except one. Unfortunately, that one had to be expelled from the school. His problematic nature has cost him his schooling. He kept beating other children in the school. We tried to solve the matter by talking to him. We tried to make him a bit more busy in the workshops, so that he would be engaged...

As you enter the immigration area of the Kigali international airport, there is a big sign stating “No non-biodegradable plastics allowed in Rwanda”. At this point, I should mention that when I was in the Calgary airport I had noticed that the stitching on one of my suitcases was coming undone, so I had carefully wrapped my bag in multi layers...