Arrived Safely

Dear friends and family,

Amber Jackson (apposed to Amber Simms) writing the first official blog post of the Rwandan trip 2015!

Everyone is currently eating breakfast, before we all head down to Changoogoo on the mini bus, with our driver called, Madest.

Yesterday we went to a Canadian church that was a similar style to Soul Survivor. The timing was not like a traditional Rwandan church services (hours and hours!), it was a sensible timing of 1.5hrs! Church was followed by lunch where Jonathan works, Soulis. It was delish - veg soup (who has HOT soup in summer!), fish + potatos + rice + veg and for desert we had perfiterals. 

The second activity we did of the day, was visiting the Genoside museum, which was very traumatizing, especially for those whos life time it was in, however it was 100% worth seeing as it gave the group a good understanding of what happened and how it affected the Rwandans, giving us more empathy towards the fragile situation with the people we will be working with.

In the evening, Jonathan organised Rwandan dancing. They made us dress up in the correct costumes! Im not going to lie, they outshone us by miles, however Alex was a natural being a dancer and all! 

After a hectic day and us all being so tired through lack of sleep from traveling here, and the 3 hours sleep we got before we had to wake up for breakfast, it was a fab day that we all enjoyed and it was a good opportunity for us all to settle into our new home and environment for the next 2 weeks. It's save to say we are all happy and comfortable with being here.