TWO WEEKS BACK IN RWANDA--WHEW! (Oops.. missed this one)

Flying back into Kigali life from the States is always made easier since the weather is so wonderful..but the next two weeks were really full of fun things.

 First, seeing Kofi (the tall one in the middle in the white shirt)
at his new boarding school… A Youth for Christ School.
This school just started a boarding school so he is getting in on the ground floor!   

The next great thing that happened was that Laura arrived to volunteer at 

Urukundo Children's Home for 3 months!  

She is from Pittsburgh so if was like having another family member coming from home! 

She'd be working with Mama Arlene and all the kids!  Mama came to pick her up and we just went to meet her at the airport and welcome her to Rwanda!

 Then a fun night at the US Ambassador's residence! 

These women are mentors from the Silicon Valley area who mentor other young women around the world in their area of expertise.  They were wonderful and fun and it was a great night!

Another day took us on 
a visit to one of the schools that we gave a small grant to from AIC!  The kids sang for us and sang and sang!
    
Looks like I wasn't the only tired one!  Isn't he dear? 

Valentine's Day was just around the bend so we had
an AIC Valentine Party at Urban Bistro!

Lisa and Chris from the States!

Bruce and Pru…  a good friend from
Bible Study all the way from down under.
Missing her these days since she is home
with her first grand baby!! 

 Mirjam and Johann and Rima!

A visitor, and Gerda and Odette.
(Gerda and Odette both moved away while i was back in the States).  I will miss them so….
Great friends and fellow believers!

My sweet neighbors around the corner, Eric and Shana!

More new friends from Australia… Linda and Paul..

Bernie, Bruce and Chris chattin' it up!

Ceren in red…  and Samela across the table in white.
  We were all supposed to wear either red white or black
to add to the festivities.

It was a fun night with "couple" names that Beulah and Gerda had put on each chair.  Each of us had to find our match..
like Lucy and Ricky, etc.  It was a great ice breaker.  Dinner was
terrific and everyone had a lot of fun!!

That was a whirlwind of 2 weeks and really i skipped a couple things.  It's times like these I remember the folks that told us
before we came here that there "wasn't anything to do in Kigali"!

Don't believe everything you hear, right?
We are so blessed with great friends of every age and stage!

love,
margie