Getting close!!

SO- officially- we have received our first (of I'm sure very many) emails from our Rwandan program coordinator. His name is Justus and our other coordinator is Willy. We were both pretty excited to hear from our on-site contacts this far in advance. He told us that Willy would meet us at the airport in Kigali (with a sign!) and gave us a little more info about the program. Their organization seems to be doing a lot of work in Kigali and surrounding areas so we're of course getting wicked excited. Check them out: http://www.faithvictory.org/home.html.

When it comes to travel we've been continuing to research options out of the states and into Africa. The most feasible option (budgetary and otherwise) is to fly into Entebbe/Kampala International Airport. From there we're researching the bus options into Kigali. We've been reading user reviews and blogs and basically anything traveler-created to see what the bus situation... Although of course we'd loveeee to fly in directly to Kigali, the price difference is pretty significant AND we could score some tickets that have sick layovers in Dubai- and that is a place that I am dying to see. or another option has a pretty long layover in London, which would also be awesome to see.

so we're continuing down our road of budgeting, researching and getting some sweet travel options. Our parent organization offers some discounts on participating airlines, so we're looking into all of that as well.

Fingers crossed, all our program fees will be all paid off by the end of September, so we can spend October saving up for the flights and booking before we leave DC-- EEP!!! so exciting =)