I wrote out a big long blog post and now I am at an internet cafe and my flash drive isn't working grrr! I am leaving Kigali tomorrow so I need to get a post up but instead of trying to be intelligent and thoughtful I will just do a recap of the main ideas.

-Butare: Visited the main University town, stayed at a volunteer house made lots of cool friends and also my favorite person, Elizabeth, will be living down there so I will be happy to go down and see them a lot. Went to an orphanage to visit with the children who were AIDS orphans and many of them were infected as well. Similar to the orphanage I visited in India only, sadly, much bigger.

-Orientation: Orientation is finally over. I will be leavin to Matimba in the very north of Uganda tomorrow. My headmaster will pick me and my roommate Shira up and we will discuss curriculum. I am very excited to see my living accomodation, but not nearly as excited for the bathroom situation.

-Kagame's motorcade: Was crossing the street in the embassy district. Looked right and didn't see any cars so across I went. All of a sudden I heard frantic honking and looked right again to see a Land Cruiser barreling towards me upwards of 100 miles an hour. SO scary. I am skittish when crossing the street already I started screaming and flailing. A sight to see I'm sure. There were two more land cruisers and then Kagame's land rover which I'm told never stop as a security precaution. Can you imagine the Obama traveling around like that? Man I'm bummed I have to miss the inaugeration.

-U.S. ambassador: My meeting with the U.S. ambassador went about as awkward as the British incident. We were at a reception for U.S. nationals in Rwanda which was a great networking tool. I felt very mature hobnobbing with ex-pats. I think I might have a lead on a job with World Relief when this is over. Anyway. The ambassador was giving a speech which apparently I was not paying enough attention too. So he commented on this and then proceeded to the back row where I was sitting and did the rest of the speech sitting next to Elizabeth and I. I was mortified. Everyone turned around and laughed, but I introduced myself later and I figure if there is ever a problem I'll always be that girl he called out in the back row. Plus, I invited myself back over to the residence(colonial mansion) for a Worldteach/Peace Corp party and he seemed very receptive to the idea!

Sorry this is brief I have a lot more to tell. I will do a better post next time but for now my friends from Butare in town and we have some celebrating to do! Miss everyone!