TEAMWorks Rwanda - Saturday, September 12, 2015

Today we had a great day building relationships with the Gatagara staff! We started off the day heading out on a "12 mile trip" to the festival of nuns. Two hours later we arrived to African drummers outside the church. After a four hour mass where we watched the new nuns get inducted into the church, we ate a traditional Rwandan lunch with Fanta drinks. We watched Intore dancers perform traditional Rwandan ceremony dances.  They managed to pull us all out on the dance floor, even Mike!  Later we were invited into the convent to eat cake and lady finger bananas with the nuns. It is customary in Rwandan to be invited into the home to eat and talk after an event instead of leaving right away. Before ending our time at the convent we shared one of our traditions with them. Calling the hogs! On our way back we were able to tour the secondary school of Gatagara and ate BBQ goat, goat cheese and sausage for dinner. We headed home with Mike gripping the car handle tightly and calling our local pedestrians alongside the edge of the road. "Left, Right!"

comments powered by Disqus