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This blog describes my adventures in Africa. In 2018, this will be my 4th trip to Africa. I traveled to Rwanda in March 2016, and Kenya and Tanzania in the Spring, 2015, and Kenya in 2010. On our journey, we'll be visiting schools, centers for people with disabilities, making friends, looking for animals and finding adventure wherever we go. Wahoo!!!!

Sunday, March 20, 2016

Now we're in Africa

Hi today we met our driver Bosco. He took us to the Komera school protect which is an extremely poor part of the country. Komera is a place that helps keep girls in school. In some countries, boys are appreciated more than girls, so sometimes girls are not allowed to go to school if her family is too poor.
These are some of the girls we met, they had just graduated from secondary school (high school).  They all come from very poor families, and they really want an education.



We met a family so poor, but they believed in their child's education so much, they literally sold their roof for money for her education. Isn't that amazing!!! Even though school is "free" they have to give money to pay the teacher, pay for uniforms, pay for taking tests, pens, food, and other things we don't have to pay for ourselves. So really it's not at all free.
The kids had soccer balls made of plastic bags and rubber bands, so I gave them one of mine.







Last night I accidentally fell out of my seat backwards and almost fell into a hippo infested lake. Isn't that awesome!!!Actually I hurt my leg when I fell off.



Isn't that awesome!!!

We are staying in a tent at Akagera National Park. There is a board walk so that you don't get eaten by hippos or leopards. Our tent is right next to the 2nd largest lake in Rwanda. Isn't that awesome. I think it's awesome. At night I fall asleep listening to the jungle noises like hippos burping, or birds chirping, and bugs humming. It is so peaceful here.
































P.S. This picture of the leaves is for Brit from Finn and Mom😀


"Murabeho"- Good-bye. :)
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2 comments:

  1. G'maMarch 22, 2016 at 11:59 AM

    We didn't know hippos burp! That's really funny!! Good thing that you didn't actually fall into their lake, but it seems that riding around is really fun. It was really great that you had a soccer ball to give to the kids who were plating with plastic bags and rubber bands. It will be interesting for them to learn how to manage the real ball - very different bounce! Don't the high school girls look happy and proud? Their parents are too, no doubt, since they have given so much to have their daughters get this chance to go to school. Aren't we all SOOO lucky to have education available to us all in our own home towns? Wow! Something to think about when school is boring.
    love, G'pa and G'ma

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  2. AnonymousMarch 26, 2016 at 7:08 AM

    So your reading a Long Walk To Water with Mrs. Nielsen. Isn't it a great book? I'm glad you weren't burped by a hippo. from,Bennett P.S.
    Thank you for putting in cat pictures. I love them to.

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