Rwanda!

Hi from Musanze, Rwanda! We have had a great few days! It is 11 pm and I snuck away to a hotel to find some internet! Yesterday, we visited the Genocide Memorial immediatley after our flight. I am going to have one of the kids post about it, but to sum it up... WOW! The students were blown away. They learned and saw so much, I think they are still asking questions and processing. After the memorial, we gathered in the gardens and talked about what we had seen. It was great to talk about it and awesome to hear what they thought. Then we left for dinner at a local African style buffett restaurant, then home to sleep. Everyone slept pretty well, especially after a hot shower. Today we got up really early, and waited (Africa time) for our driver to show up. When he arrived, we went to a local business who employees women and children who were orphaned or widowed by the genocide. They sell handmade craft products, which everyone was crazy for. We all have something great to remember the trip and the proceeds go to a great organization. Then we had the opportunity to deliver some very important adoption documents for a US friend. It was great to come out of his office and see all the students playing soccer in the road with a hundred kids. SO FUN! They are jumping right into African culture and life. We followed that up with a 2 hour bus ride through the mountains and volcanoes and patchwork fields of crops. This is when we truly saw it was a land of a thousand hills, blue and misty. We arrived in Musanze, dropped off our luggage at our home went straight to the cultural village, which is INCREDIBLE! We learned about the ancient kings, their homes, medicine men, wheat grinding, arrow shooting, drumming and dancing. We all laughed a LOT! Next we went to Volcana Lounge, the local pizza place. We met up with the group of 20 students from Saudi Arabia and had a fantastic time talking to them, even when the electricity went out and we ate pizza by candlelight! We shared all of our adventures here thus far and we made a lot of new friends, from ALL over the world! Now we are settled into our home, ready for a great day tomorrow, our first day at the preschool! We are all so excited! I have tons of photos but they aren't loading, I'll try again tomorrow.  Sorry. And goodnight from beautiful Rwanda!