Hello all!
Today has been another eventful day in the life of us Simpson College students in Rwanda. We traveled to a new school to teach a new song to the students. The lesson went very well and the children are now one step closer to singing the song at the baby gorilla naming celebration that takes place every year.
I am so grateful that I get this chance to be a part of these children's' education in protecting the environment and the mountain gorilla species. I also enjoy the sheer happiness that the children get from just being near a mzungo (white person), every time they see you a huge smile breaks out onto their face and it makes you feel uplifted no matter how tough the day is going.
Later on today I again went to help make briquettes that are apart of the Save the Forest Briquette Initiative. They are being created to provide an alternative to cutting down fire wood everyday for cooking purposes. I have helped there the past three days and our group has made over 600 briquettes with manual mixing and pressing.
Yesterday a few of us received our African made dresses that we had tailored from material that we bought at the market. We also happened to be the group that was helping Eunice and Sophie (guest house staff) prepare supper for the night, so we went shopping at the food market in our new outfits.
This was quite the experience! It was twice the amount of looks from people on the street and comments as well. All good comments of course such as; you look pretty, you are smart, very nice, and those outfits are beautiful. At the food market everybody stopped what they were doing just to look at us in our outfits, it is a very different feeling but a good one!
Hope everybody is well and I can't believe I will be on a plane back in one week!!
--Rurabo
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