Today, we woke up and cleaned the BG Guesthouse. Then we got in a bus and drove to a tribe of the Ba Twa, the pygmies. Although they weren't very short, they performed a nice dance for us. They set out benches for us to sit on, but if you sat down before they put a blanket on they kicked you out. It was similar to the Intore, but a lot shorter and the Twa sang a lot better. We met the chief and she showed us one of their huts. It was super small (the size of a normal bathroom) but held 6 people. Then we drove to the school of AIDP which Greg works for. They place 5 orphans with 1 widow of the genocide and build houses and educate them. All of the kids were very cute, and were very happy when we delivered them our duffel bag full of children's books. They all were very polite and immediately asked us our names in the best English that they had. Some of them even drew pictures for us and said "I love you" Then we had lunch, a nice last Rwandan buffet at the Silverback, and said our goodbyes to Bosco and Ruhengeri.
The beautiful trip back to Kigali took about two hours, and basically everyone slept during it. We got back to the Iris and got our rooms situated. Then we headed to SoleLuna to get some AMAZING pizza. It was a lot like Punch, which made Emma very excited. We experienced a power outage throughout half of Kigali, but it only lasted a short time. They are now rushing us out of the internet cafe, so goodbye!
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Dancing, singing pygmies with an attitude, a female chief, loving orphans and pizza. Ah, life is sweet.
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