Day 1 From Millie's Perspective:

 

The plane ride was…long, yet i walked around and made some new foreign friends! Bourbon coffee looked just like a coffee shop you would see in America, and I had a super yummy smoothieJ Exchanging money made you feel rich cause of the HUGE stack of money you would walk out with and also how many thousands they gave you, much different than America. The Genocide Memorial was a culture shock, not even 20 years ago the murder that happened here is astonishing especially when you see so many friendly people, some pictures you would see of a dead body hanging out of a car or seeing a dead body of a toddler was not something I expected on my first day in the Country but the most surprising was seeing hundreds of real human skulls and femur bones and wrist bones just lined up. It was almost too much. Karibu restraint was intresting. With almost no food and 10 of us trying to eat yet the good attitude of the group was so refreshing! And last of all Elsie's home was stunning, nothing  like I was expecting Africa too look like inside the gate, 3 story home with a winding stair case, I was surprised also to have my own bathroom and room! Outside the gate was the poverty I was expecting though. While we waited for our bus to leave that next day everyone was shocked to see all the "mzungu"(translation:white people) as the yell it every where we go! Haha well that's all for now!

-Millie