Muraho!

Finally some news!I have arrived well and loving Rwanda!It is an amazingly beautiful country.Very green and inbdeed the land of a thoudand hills. Kigali itself is beautiful.It's very clean, green and full of flowers as a\every roundabout is carefully decorated.I think the government it's trying it's best to make people happy by making sure their physical environment is peaceful and beautiful.Kigali is not very big and not too complicated to understand...at least in comparison to Accra.

I've already been to a couple of genocide memorials.They are very gri9m and emotional.The one in Kigali is rather big and gives a lot of information about the genocide, its roots and consequences.I also visited one in Nyamata, a church where 10,000 people were killed in one day.The clothes of the victims were placed on the ground and the mass graves at the back of the church can be visited...grim indeed.Skulls and bones are lined up in rows.
April is Genocide month so you can see signs of the victims being remembered.I saw a few ceremonies and it is not rare to see men and women break down in tears.
There are signs of the genocide everywhere: memorials, cemeteries, courts, international commissions,the UN, Red Cross, USAID, loads of NGOs...

This weekend me and some volunteers went to Lake Kivu, which is on the border of the Congo, where the conflict is still raging.We saw refugee camps on the way there as well as a few UN and Red Cross trucks.We walked to the border then went back.Lake Kivu is beautiful so it's strange to look at the other side of the lake and think that war is going on there.It was a fantastic weekend: beautiful hills, birds, etc

Work is very good as well.I do different things every day: helping single mothers make baskets and establish a business, helping children from poor families, teaching about gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS...I'm very busy but really enjoying it

I have a lot more to tell and hope I can post pictures at some point.Internet doesn't seem too slow....