I was reading over the blog today and realized there are some cool experiences we haven't really shared yet, so here is a quick summary of those as well as some random photo fun.
We did the memorial day with the two other interns who stay in the town of Musanze. The next day, we left and went to Musanze while the interns from Musanze stayed in Kigali. We stayed in Musanze June 4-6 with the Miller family.
The first night we were there we went to a Hotel and drank Rwandan tea (delicious, by the way). The hotel there has traditional Rwandan dancers that we got to watch and dance with. That was a fun and entertaining night.
Me with one of the traditional dancers...
Notice I am wearing a jacket..yeah. It is FREEZING up in the mountains there. Never thought I would be cold in Africa! (:
The view up in the mountains here where we drak tea and watched the dancers.
The second morning we were in Musanze we woke up
and went to a Catholic retreat center that is way up at the top of the world.
It was a great place to absorb God's beautiful creation. We talked with
Matt Miller (one of the missionaries in Musanze) about our experiences this far
and what they have gathered us to think about our future. We talked about how
this experience is great if we end up in the mission field and is still great
even if we don't. It is such an eye opening experience to have and if we as
interns do not do mission work abroad we can still respect and see the
sacrifice that it takes to be a missionary. We also get to see how much support
is needed as a missionary both financially and in prayer. We got to reflect on
what God has put on our hearts and also verbalize those feelings which is so
important. As of now, I strongly feel that God has called me to mission work
abroad to be a disciple maker and a worker in His harvest (Mt. 10:2). I am
calling YOU (yes you) the one reading this, to hold me accountable as a sister
in Christ to follow what God has put on my heart. Accountable in prayer,
support, and Christian love. We also discussed things that should happen before
then, finish college, get married, find church support, discover where God is
calling me to go...ect. I also feel that God has called me to do those things before I go live abroad for a long-term period.
Another great thing we got the privilege of doing
in Musanze was teaching english to the Regina Pachis Secondary School. The
topic of the day was "Cinema" and teaching vocabulary words that had
to do with going to the movies, making movies, or watching movies. After
running though some vocab with the kids we spilt them into groups where they
had to make up their own movie ideas fit with a title, setting, plot, and
character names. I got the group of rowdy boys and it was quite hilarious to
hear them talk about their movie. It was called "Regina Pachis Love,"
the plot was about the two characters Jenny and Peter. Jenny loved Peter and he
did not know, and so Jenny gave him a gift and he realized he did not love her
back. But then he did realize later that he does love her....basically it was a
romance movie that took place at their school. And yes, those rowdy boys came
up with the whole thing.
Afterwards I got to talk with some of the girls who were in the same
class. They were pretty quiet and didn't like to speak up during class, but
afterwards they had a million questions to ask me. It was pretty cool to see
that one of them knows a Rwandan OC student and told me to tell her hi for
her.
As always I will update more as I get the opportunities!
XOXOX,
Darian
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