Briefly: my life has been consumed by my
women's coop (we've started grass mat making, which includes trips to get the grass from the valley, as shown in the pictures, and things like learning how to make peanut butter, creating a leadership committee, and discussing future projects...love these women!)...my
girl's club at school and planning a girls' camp with other volunteers for next month, love these girls!... playing
sports at school in the afternoons, particularly focusing on the girls and making a general fool of myself on the volleyball court and soccer field, and teaching them how to throw a disc, which they are super enthusiastic about!...building bookshelves from scrap wood so our "library" might actually look like a
LIBRARY!...and the daily activities, visiting, chores, choir, and my kiddies! My full time partner in crime,
Anita, turned 7 a few months ago but true to Rwandan style we didn't nail down her actual date of birth til sometime this month, so we celebrated late with a reallll boxed cake brought from America by another volunteer, happy birthday singing, and making a wish and blowing out the candle! She was positively glowing all night!
So, these pictures show getting grass with my coop women, kids playing at the well which is under construction and will sooooon bring water all the way up to the village (!!), walking around enjoying the scenary with my housemate Josie and little neighbor Anita, some of my Senior 1 girls doing tons and tons of laundry down by the well (the taller one in the back is Anita's older sister and also awesome), and Anita's birthday celebration.
5 months left, holy cow so much to do! It's going to be beyond incredibly difficult to leave...
