Waking up was a blast for the group
– after twenty-nine hours of traveling and hardly any sleep, everyone was a bit
slow to rise. The day started with a wonderful breakfast including cereal,
bananas, bread and jam, African tea, and an assortment of chicken
gizzards. Leaving breakfast, we decided
to conduct our morning meeting in the gardens. The trees and flowers were
wonderful. We played a word association game, and addressed the question “why
are we here?” The activities we would have for the rest of the day would help
us answer that question.
After our morning activities we
drove off to the Genocide Memorial museum. People were so surprised on the bus
ride there because everyone on the street would wave at you and give you these
beautifully big smiles that made your day! Everyone’s’ hands were out the
window in a matter of minutes. Once we arrived we had a tour around the gardens
and mass graves of the people who had been killed in the genocide. This
followed by a tour of the inside of the museum, detailing the full history of
the Rwandan genocide.
We hopped back onto the bus and
traveled over to the first art studio of the day, eating lunch in the beautiful
sculpture garden. After lunch we got a quick tour of the wonderful art, and
then meandered back onto the bus to go to the other art studio. This studio
gave us the opportunity to create our own art in collaboration with the local
artist at the studio. We split off in to
two groups and each created our won art!
MORE TO FOLLOW about today. Check back soon :-)
(written by Katie Cahn and Nick Bigger)
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