the crescendo

It’s been almost a year since I posted.  Sorry friends.  It has been a full year.

I graduated from MHGS last Saturday then left for Rwanda on Monday.

It took us three days to get here…but we are finally here.

We almost had to leave my guitar in Ethiopia as they were asking for $200 to send it to Kigali…but team Rwanda triumphed against the demons of travel and Art Jr. (my guitar) is here safely with us.  Also, Ethiopian Airlines was kind enough to relieve us of the batteries we packed for our voice recorder – so the next order of action is to find triple a batteries in kigali – should be an adventure.

After we arrived yesterday afternoon, we ran some time-consuming errands and then went to bed.

I ended up getting sick burst the capilaries on my cheeks while…um…being sick.  so it looks like i have a lot of bright red freckles now.  I’ve been feeling ill all day and it’s possible that Tim has a cold as well. Please pray for our health.

Today we visited the genocide memorial.  My friend Anastase was kind enough to take us.  He is such an amazing an gentle man.  We are most thankful for him.  So as to avoid the possibility of losing my guitar in Ethiopia, I’ve decided to leave Art Jr. with Anastase’s son, who has been begging for a guitar apparently.

As for our mission:

we are here to collect indigenous stories in order to create children’s books based on the indigenous stories.  we hope to preserve Rwanda’s culture in this way and also to provide stories for a generation of children growing up without stories.

however, our contact here has not been responsive and things are not going well as far as that goes.  please be praying for opportunities to pan out – - and if you happen to have contacts in Rwanda that may be able to help us facilitate, please let me know.

the internet here is bad. so that’s it for now.