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Hero's Day - Held/innentag

Today was a very important holiday in Rwanda: The celebration of old and current heroes. In the morning, the community gathers to tell stories about those heroes. There are three different kinds: Inema, Inienza, and the last one I already forgot again. Damn it! Laura (classmate), Alice (my friend from the guesthouse) and I went to a local community meeting up the road. People sat and listened to a number of men telling stories about different heroes. Everything was in Kinyarwanda, but this is what I got about the colonizing story: The colonizers or Wazungu (many white people/ foreigners) came to the African continent and drew lines arbitrarily, creating nations where there had been tribes before. They named them Kenia, Uganda, Zambia, ... and went on to rule them directly or indirectly.  The story showed one thing very clearly and nicely: Rwandans are very aware of the many negative things that colonization brought with it and questions the ridiculous way of distributi

Back to the roots - Zurück zum Ebola-freien Anfang

JUST REALIZED THAT SOME OF THIS INFO IS NOW ON THIS BLOG TWICE, EXCUSE MY INCREDIBLY BAD MEMORY. BUT MUCH MORE INFO HERE! We made it! After having our forehead temperature checked, we were allowed back into the country. Ebola-free. Wir haben es tatsächlich geschafft! Nach Messung der Stirntemperatur an der ugandisch-ruandischen Grenze wurden wir zurück ins Land gelassen. Die Fahrt verlangte mir um einiges mehr an Magenentspannungsübungen ab, aber Dank der Anti-Spei-Tabletten war es kein größeres Problem. Our day at Lake Bunyonyi was spent very pleasantly, with a walk, a boat ride, nice views and cold beers. Unfortunately, just when we were about to take the trip back to our hotel, a storm of crazy magnitude unfolded in front of our eyes. We sought refuge in the Hotel we had been at half the day already, drank strong ginger tea, found some cards to play and finally had dinner, cause the storm would not cease. Next to the obvious issue of getting completely soaked, we were even more