three photos

Ok, taking the opportunity of having a reasonable internet connection to add some photos! Just realised I don't have any software to automatically resize photos so have to use printscreen and paint. I've got more I wanted to upload but the connection is a bit dodgy and I need to leave in a minute.... I'll try to add more soon.

Managed to get a few more uploaded

This is Jean-Marie talking to some kids in the far SW of Rwanda - he's very good at making people laugh and smile. He was getting them to sing or say good morning and then giving them 100RWF (10p) when they did which made them very happy.

That's me in a tea plantation at the edge of Nyungwe. There's another of me failing to stand up, but you'll have to wait to see that!

This is a shot of the rainforest I mentioned before. You can't really capture it in photos though, especially from the road, but it looks absolutely awesome.

A young coffee tree looking nice and healthy. You can maybe just about make out the berries, but they aren't ripe yet.

An action shot of Jean-Marie tying some ribbon to a coffee tree. We've marked them so that farmers keep the berries from 25 trees separate and record the weight so we can guesstimate the yield from a hectare of plantation.

Finally, an example of the intercropping I was going on about in my first post - bananas, cassava and beans all growing together - very clever!