Muraja

We made it safe and sound to RWANDA! The flight into the city was so beautiful! They call Rwanda the "Land of Many Hills" and they are not lying!

Our team had a long 2 and a 1/2 days of travel to get to our final destination of Kigali, Rwanda but it was so worth it!

Here is a small break down of our flights to Rwanda...

El Paso to Dallas (1 hour and 40 minutes) with a 4 and 1/2 hour lay over
Dallas to Atlanta (3 hours and 25 minutes) with a 2 and 1/2 hour lay over
Atlanta to Amsterdam (8 hours and 55 minutes) with a 2 and 1/2 hour lay over
Amsterdam to Nairobi (8 hours ish) with an over night stay of 10 hours
Nairobi to Kigali (3 hours and 45 minutes)

When we were in Kenya we stayed at ANU, which is Africa Nazarene University for a night! It was a new and first experience for me in Africa. At night the campus uses 43 dogs and 20 male security guards to protect the campus! It is really frigthening being awoken in the night by dogs barking right next to your window at something foreign! The night proved less restful than we had hoped!

It was a long couple of days but the trip was so worth it! I got stopped twice at security check points to have my bag searched and questioned. It took me over a half hour to get through security for our Nairobi to Kigali flight! It was all due to a pair of eyelash curlers that they thougth looked like scissors!

Then once we arrived in Kigali I had to be taken behind the closed doors to have my checked baggage searched by a security guard. It was a little scary because I did not know all of what they were saying and they kept asking me a lot of questions! So it got a little freaky! BUT they finally let me go through and just smiled at me!

We got to the home we would be staying at and it had cement walls with a guard and there is a British couple staying next door to us! Our site cordinator and his family are amazing! Although, they do like to talk A LOT!

Our team has been really tired trying to recover from jetlag and a new time zone! The plans for this summer are not final but we will be doing A LOT of traveling and church visits. The travel will not only be in Rwanda but also other countries as well! It will be so worth it! The time seems to be going a little more slow but we have not started our ministry yet and once things pick up we will be really really really busy! Hopefully we will have email at least once a week!

Right now we are preparing for a church on Sunday and I am trying to learn Swahili which is proving to be a little difficult! ALRIGHT...A LOT difficult!