Thursday, March 24, 2011

[ Wrapping Up: Rwanda ]

TOP 10 RWANDAN HIGHLIGHTS
  1. Making sure I don't get water in my mouth, so I don't get sick.
  2. Being the only white person watching Manchester futbol.
  3. Being asked to marry, at least four times.
  4. Elephants charging at us for at least a mile.
  5. Learning how bananas grow.
  6. Seeing a Rwandan in the boonies wearing an Obama t-shirt.
  7. Watching children laugh and play with a bike tire and stick.
  8. Attempting to speak Swahili in a french-speaking country.
  9. Seeing gorillas in their natural habitat.
  10. Seeing God's creation in a whole new way.

RWANDAN NEVER FORGETS ....

  1. Seeings rooms full of bones and pictures of those who died.
  2. Hearing the stories of the victims and survivors.
  3. Walking through mass graves at Nymata church.
  4. Seeing the machete laying on the blood-stained alter at Nymata.
  5. Watching a coffin be cleaned by a woman who had been gang raped and tortured.
  6. MOST OF ALL ...Hearing the HOPE and feeling of HEALING of the Rwandan people

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