After Church at Christ's Church Rwanda we headed to Milles Collines for lunch. This is the famous Hotel Rwanda in the movie
with the same name.
It is a beautiful place now!!
Great fresh juice and lunch...
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| And a great band to listen to, too! |
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| Then after coffee trinken in the late afternoon, we went to the airport to pick up Bruce.. |
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| He came back with a few things-- ( some for us but most for the university). He had been to visit his mom (and family) in Omaha and Rob & Michelle and boys drove out to be with him for a couple of days before he went to Oklahoma City to speak at the Summit for Rwandan students studying in the US. But, it is good to have him back. |
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| Monday was market day. A little different than Market Day in Schools across America. These are gourds that they convert into traditional containers. They are quite large. |
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| Today they were painting them before selling. I believe the tradition is that every home must have one of these when someone gets married to make sure there is always a place to store the milk. But I do need to check that out to see if it is correct. |
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| So... we entered the market. Something new and completely different today... The ladies were braiding hair right inside the entrance to all the African crafts. See all the unfinished gourds hanging above them?
 And these are some smokin' big SWEET POTATOES!!! They were sort of "hairy" but I bought one and fixed it and it really was a sweet potato!! Maybe sweet potatoes on steroids! |
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| I didn't take a lot of pictures inside because I've taken so many before but when we came out.. the banana truck had just arrived. |
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| Who eats all these? |
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| I guess some of these folks do! |
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| We talked to these little girls....and then took their pictures and showed them to them... |
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| Lovin' this attitude!!! They both broke into huge smiles when they saw themselves in the camera! |
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| By this time, Mathias had had enough of the crowds and all the people in the market. So we headed to the car. I love the market but sometimes it can be a little overwhelming. |
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| Can't believe these cloudy skies! Looks like a cloudy day in Pittsburgh. |
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| We took off to the Cards from Africa production area. They were really making a lot of recycled paper today! Inside and out they were making paper--drying on the large glass plates. |
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| It starts like this... Just a bunch of used paper. |
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| Cut and blended in water. The final blending is actually done in a blender... |
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| then laid out on forms and dried a bit... |
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| ..and then hung on the large sheets of glass... |
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| and set out to dry. |
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| This is the room full of all the paper that has been textured and/or dyed to be different colors. Eva was getting the lowdown. |
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| The dying and drying process. |
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| Then we entered the design room.... |
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| where all the little pieces of things cut are put together in a picture or design. Recognize this scene? They were working on a lot of Christmas Cards. |
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| This new design of an Intore Dancer is so great and this young man was pretty happy to be its creator. |
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| And this "African woman" card was a new product. Intricate patterns with a great result. Stacks and stacks of cards are being made in this room that is about 20 x 40 by about 40 young people. After seeing the showroom.... we went to the room where all the cards are cataloged and ready to sell and we went shopping! A great place for purchasing creative products... Look for them in a mailbox near you.... soon! love, margie |
Hello Margie, those are not sweet potatoes, those are Yams, it's another type of starch .. but they are very different from SWEET potatoes... try them next time. regards.
ReplyDeleteInteresting and Thanks for telling me.. In the States there is always a discussion about sweet potatoes and yams....
ReplyDeleteWe use both words interchangeably to mean the same potato! So... now i find out here they ARE different plants!
Which do you like?