a motorcyle taxi?

Okay so my first experience with grocery shopping was pretty funny.The actual shopping wasn't funny it was how i got home. Alright so a local Pastor took me to the store. We headed on the bus and arrived at a small store down town where I found some necessities to help for a couple of days. I asked the pastor if the store excepted visa cards and he assured me several times that they did. So I pulled up the the register with my load of stuff and asked if they excepted my card. Nope she said. I was about the wring the guys neck but i realized no matter what question you ask here the answer is always yes. "So do you know if they except cards" YES, "Are the monkeys coming in our yard dangerous?" YES, "Do you speak english" YES "Did it rain yesterday?", YES, are you answering Yes to every question?" YES. Okay so I didn't really ask these questions. So back to the story. So luckly I had a $100 bill that I had in my purse from traveling so was able to us it. Yes you can us USD if the bill is made after 2004 and it is a large bill. So the next crazy thing was there aren't oust bags to use to fill your groceries with. There is a law in Rwanda that there are no plastic bags. So that means everything was being packed into these small (lunch size) brown paper bags. But you can buy these reusable bags too. So I bought 2 and filled my brown bags full of groceries in them. BTW that are no large hefty duty bags to put your home trash in either. So now with 2 large reusable (the kind that are popular in the states now) bags we walked out of the store. Not too excited about catching the bus with these large bags the Pastor started to negotiate with the motorcycle taxis for us. After he got a fair price there I am sitting on the back of the motorcycle in a dress with a large grocery sack on my lap. There were lots of people looking at us. But hey, we got home a whole lot faster than taking the bus. So we are weaving in and out of traffic and I am trying to hang on to the guy and the groceries. We made it home and everything was good. Hummm the life of a missionary... some of you guys are really missing out :)
So right now I am sitting at my desk drinking coffee, eating pineapple (one of 6) a local pastor brought us, listening the the birds chirp outside and thinking how beautiful Rwanda is. It really truly is a beautiful, clean and safe (despite what friends and families may think :) ) place to live.
Okay so pray for us today (although I realize most of you are sleeping) that we continue to adjust to this new culture, get our work visa's so we can get out container delivered and learn a NEW language so we can communicate with the people here better. We would also like for you to pray we can afford a truck.
Okay I love all y'all and remember...don't forget to stop at your local Starbucks, they are selling Rwanda coffee right now.
April