Exercise and Open Air!

One day last week I was out talking to some folks at our gate when along came a woman  walking her beautiful golden lab.  We spoke and then started talking.  Turns out she is a pastor's wife and they have been living in different parts of Africa for years.  But they've been in Rwanda now for 2 years.  She invited me to a Bible Study on Tues. morning,
told me about a place that she goes to exercise 3 days a week AND informed me about an International Women's Club that meets to do service things and fun things.  WOW!  All that in one conversation.

So, on Mon I went to the step aerobic Class and on Wed the toning class.  Friday is Thebo?
They are very strenuous but very good!  Each class led by a different instructor.
But this is where we have our classes!

They are held at the Manor Hotel in a large open-air room.
By day... we exercise there.. by night it is an Indian Restaurant.
Not sure I'd ever eat here. Ha!

 View from behind instructor.

Off to the other side

This is Shannon (the Mon. instructor from US) and Jan, my new friend.

 Wed. the instructor for the toning/aerobic class was Barbara from Hanover, Germany

And today.. Friday..we had a Thebo class with a Rwandan man, named, ???  I forgot. 

He was tough and all day since then i've been hungry and tired! ha!

Great setting for a class, huh?

After the initial workout then we do floor exercises.

 Jan asked me to take her picture to send to her kids!

 Views from today... Friday. a little clearer. This is actually shooting
in the direction of our house... except it is beyond the furtherest hill.

That tall white building is the Telecom House -Where B's office is.

Looking downtown and I understand there is a new library
that opened Mon. off to the right.

 This is the area we had our "coffee on Wed"... not in the pool but in the grassy area. 
I met a woman who has run a Tea Plantation here for 16 years.  She and her husband are retiring.  She was from SriLanka and will be returning there... but it was funny...She kept telling us that she was a Christian and not a Buddhist.  She came back less than a year after the Genocide.  They had run the tea plantation before the war.  I asked her what it was like upon their return...  She said..Well, the tea factory was gone, destroyed and there were NO people walking anywhere...unlike now.. there are 100's of people, especially out in the rural areas walking up and down hills, through fields, etc.  She has been here and is astonished at how much as been accomplished.  She had many stories!

Let's see these women re present: Sweden, the Netherlands, Bolivia, Albania, 

Japan, Taiwan, Iran, France, Rwanda, Kenya, India, the US, SriLanka, Germany and a couple others that I've forgotten.  Some of these women are believers and others are not.  So the Int. Womens' Club will be a great place to get to know a lot of folks from around the world and listen to their world views and find out about their faith!

I made it through one week and can still walk.  Today was a little rough on the ankle... but i'm still standing.  I have 2 accountability friends to make sure I keep going.  It is actually wonderful... most things are when you have time!

 
Our Rwandan pastor and his wife and family are coming over for dinner
so i need to get going.... before i do run out of time.
love and hugs..
margie

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY GRANDSON WYATT, TURNING 6 TODAY!