The village is stunning! We drove into the village and dropped off our bags in our room. At the edge of the guest house is a lounge area where we found bread rolls, guacamole, and a salad of papaya and the best pineapple I have ever had, it was even grown in the village farm. We unpacked quickly and got a tour of the village by one of the year long volunteers who just graduated from Brandeis. It started to rain about halfway through our tour but we kept on trekking until the administration office where we met the director of the village. The director is from Israel and has only been here for a few months. Eventually, the village will become fully Rwandan run.
Dinner came along quickly so we split up into pairs to sit at different tables with different families. All the kids in the village are divided up into families. There are about 16 kids in each family and they have a house mother, a counselor and some volunteers. The food wasn't bad. We ate rice, sweet potatoes that weren't orange and a bean stew with some eggplant in it. Dinner was a little awkward to begin with but everyone was so friendly. I was talking to a girl next to me about the classes she is taking in the village. She told me her favorite class was geography and that she is learning about the atmosphere. She asked me my favorite class and I said astronomy, she then went on to say she is also learning about celestial objects in her geography class. I was amazed at what these kids were learning! After a few minutes of eating, the girl asked me how the moon was formed! I was so surprised she was interested in that information and she even understood my answer! After washing our own dishes, we went back to our rooms to have a "Thorns and Roses" session where we talk about a good and bad thing that happened that day. Then off to our netted beds we went!
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