you can pick your friends

I appreciate how unabashed Rwandans are about picking their noses.

I mean, I've long been a nose picker. No big deal, I figure; there are worse bad habits and sometimes kleenex just doesn't do the job.

But in Rwanda nose picking isn't a bad habit, it's part of life. There's a lot of dust in Rwanda -- not too many paved roads. If you want to be able to breathe out of your nose at all, you gotta take those opportunities to clean out your nostrils.

So why be ashamed? Go ahead and pick your nose during the meeting with the Minister of Health. Why not. Everyone else is doing it, too.