What a fun week. Rwanda is a very interesting place. I visited my friend Tricia , I had met in South Africa. She is PCV in Rwanda. But before I visited her I went to a big town call Butare. I got there pretty late met some PCVs at the pool there but didn't go swimming. That night we when out to the club and I danced with this Rwandan mama. It was fun but that that different then Kenya. The next day I went to the Museum the then headed met up with Tricia. Person here are very crafty. The way they build their houses(or huts) are very different than Kenya. Their baskets are a bit different as well. I saw some cool pictures of the olden days where people would carry the chief as he traveled.
After leaving the museum I went to Tricia's place. On the bus ride we were able to catch up. The next day. We walked to Lake Kivu. It is a very big beautiful lake. On the other side of it was the Congo. If I really wanted to I could have probably swam to the Congo. That night a PCV living next to Tricia and a American couchsurfer staying on Somalia (teaching English) came. The guy, Brandon had some good stories from leaving in Somalia. He said he lived in a pretty safe part of Somalia. On one hand he said he felt safe saying there were lots of police on the area and would even walk around late at night. Then on the other hand he said there were few times were guns were pulled on him(by people in the government) and once even saw shots fired(but no one hit). He said if he leaves his city there must be a police man with him. He give me some Somali money. The biggest bill was 500 and that was worth 10 cents US. If you buy big thing there you buy them in USD. He also told me how women were very much separated from the men in society. Ok enough about Somalia...
The next day I went to Tricia's friend's place (Crista). She lives with a brunch of nuns at a Catholic church. We (Me and Brandon) climbed the bell tower were there was no bell. It was not the safest thing I have ever gone to say the least but really fun. That afternoon I tried banana beer in her village. It was not bad but not that good either.
The follow day Brandon and I moved on see a forest were just at the bottom outside of it was a small village of people that used to live in the forest but they had been moved to protect the forest. In the forest we saw Colobus monkeys. This is the only place in the world where the monkeys travel in packs or (super groups” In the village there were some PCVs there that were very nice and showed us around. Most of the building were being remodeled bc the government is making people make the country look nicer with higher standards. They are told to fix your house or take it down. I think this is hard on the people bc they don't have the money but they work together to find a way. This was a theme in the whole country(ex. motorbike wear helemets ,store only having paper bags and limit or no street food allowed. Well I have a bus to catch 10 hours to Kampala fun stuff....Heading back to Kenya but tonight Kampala.
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