last day

Only one day to go! We are not looking forward to the flight, we could spend here another week. Yesterday we came back from Lake Kivu: it was short but beautiful. We spent two days at the Lake with the teachers, practicing their English. The trip to the lake (in the very west of Rwanda) was amazing. Three hours of beautiful country sides, a good road and again friendly people waving at us. Graham, Christine and Gordon didn’t enjoy the trip a lot, because they were on the bus with a too fast driver. They prayed a lot ……

The day before, we visited two genocide memorial sites. Very, very impressing! You see those memorial sites all over the country: “never again”. The first we visited was a catholic church (which they all are). In this church hided 5000 Tutsi’s, nearly impossible, if you look at the size of the church. They were all killed by gun bullets, grenades and machetes. All the bodies were left there until last year. What you see now was skeletons, 5000 skulls, clothes full of blood, shoes and mattresses full of blood. Because the memorial is at the place were it actually happened, it is very moving to be there. The second was the same, but bigger (10.000 Tutsi’s were killed). There were texts with examples about the way people were killed. We’ll save you from those stories.

And also the guttering is nearly finished. What a joy!! Simple: gutters around all the roofs of the school, with two big tanks; makes a huge difference.

Tomorrow we fly back. We have a 6 hour stop in Nairobi, so we will try to leave the airport there and go out for dinner.