Blayne and I went to Gisenyi to see Lake Kivu this weekend. It was pretty amazing, the closest I've come to an ocean this summer. We relaxed on Saturday, and I actually got some sun! Sunday we went to church with the secondary students at Sonrise. We got to see the students sing and dance, and a student preached but we had to listen through a translator which is a little hard...
Yesterday, we went to Sonrise to start on the teacher workroom but the shelves weren't ready yet so we talked to a few students and got some interviews about the containers that came from Fellowship to put on a thank you video.
But today was a great day! We got to Sonrise and our shelves were delivered so we could start organizing and putting up all the supplies for the teachers to use. It was quite the task, but we managed to finish it this afternoon! Seriously, it was definitely a God thing...just wait til you see the pictures! We had to limit our help to about 6 students, but we could've had about 100...they were very eager and willing to help us which is nice. We went through at least 65 boxes of supplies--books, markers, pencils, math manipulatives, tape, crafts, toys, etc. Basically anything you can imagine, we went through it today! We finally finished and walked outside to the trash where we found about 50 kids rummaging through to find anything that we might have looked over. We didn't miss much, so we saw kids take construction paper pieces, old border, beads that dropped out, pretty much just trash, but they didn't care at all. They were excited to have anything. It made me tear up to see how happy they were with nothing compared to most kids in the states who aren't happy until they have everything. I was sad, but they weren't...they were content with anything we had left over. It was a pretty good life lesson for me! (and I was especially glad Blayne learned it too...haha!)
Needless to say, today was a happy day for everyone! It is a relief to have the project completed, and we are almost finished with everything we came to do. Right now, I'm enjoying some African tea after riding my bike...yes, I actually rode a bike without wrecking!...to our favorite restaurant. They love us here, everyone knows our name! We are heading to Kigali on Friday to wrap up our trip...good times, good times!
As Rwandans say, until we meet again,
jess
love it...we missed you at Mom's party, it was perfect (except that you were missing.)
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