Gabgayi Garage

So this morning I wake up and our front driver's side tire is 1/2 flat. What do you do in rural Rwanda when you have a flat tire? You call your Rwandan friends, Emmy and John, to find out where to go. Emmy recommended Kabgayi Garage in Gitarama. It is 45 minutes away but they are a reputable garage that we have used in the past. So I drive to Kabgayi and find out that to have tire service down you have to go to the garage down the road. So Juvenile, the head mechanic, takes my vehicle to the garage and we find out that only the valve was leaking...not the tire. But he did find that the brake pads needed changing as well as the oil. So here I sit in my vehicle writing this post as mechanics and about (12 interns) work on my vehicle. As I am writing I look behind my vehicle and see a woman selling pineapple to the employees. She has a knife and is cutting the delicious fruit for them after they buy them. I wonder how much she is charging the "locals" for them. We typically will pay 350 rwf for the biggest pineapples (about 60 cents).