Day 2

I woke up before 7:00a.m. the next morning had breakfast with everybody and we boarded our bus into town to visit Nyamirambo Women’s center. We heard an inspiring story of how women were funded to sew clothes and various things of that nature, but my favorite part to hear was when the women knew that the funding would eventually stop they had the idea that they wanted to be independent, make their own money, and make a living for themselves, so they did, and they prospered into the comfortable business they have today. From there we went on a tour of that neighborhood, which was one of the poorer parts of Kigali, and we seen women doing hair in shops and was told that you would get a certain hairstyle based off of your marital status which was interesting to me. We saw beautiful artwork done along the walls on a street, and I witnessed food being prepared where some of us partook in the process, which was fun to do and watch. Then my favorite part of the day cane when we had a home cooked meal prepared for us by a lovely woman and let me tell you, I am a very picky eater, but besides 2 out of the 7+ dishes I ate everything and when I tell you it was so delicious I honestly wanted a takeout container of it and the recipes. No kidding. The next thing we did was visit the Kigali Memorial Center where we went through to learn about the Genocide including, how it was started, who was killed, and how they healed and forgave. But the part that got me and I’m sure everyone else was when we approached the last room of the children. It stated things like their favorite things to eat, favorite person, and things of that nature, and then at the very bottom of the plaque it said how they died. That tore me. It truly did. Like children are defenseless and innocent, and then that... They didn’t deserve it. No one did, but how could you live with yourself after doing that. It broke my heart. Then we went down near the mass graves to lay down a rose & had a minute of silence in honor and remembrance of the people who lost their lives to this tragedy. It was so sad just to think about it. To kind of change the mood we went out to dinner at the Repub Lounge where the food didn’t disappoint. It was a nice restaurant. I loved the view and mood of it. Then we went back to the guest house to go to sleep again to prepare for day 3.