Reaching Out & Looking Up

It's been an awesome week for the assistants. I'll let my partner in crime expound on her exciting last seven days.

For the both of us however, we've had some excitement. My friend, actor, Isaiah Washington, put us in touch with an amazing woman named Floriane who has a organization in Rwanda. She's offered to meet up with before we leave, give us tips on the country, tell us more about it and even meet up with us when we've landed in Kigali! Her organization is doing some amazing things, building a village for displaced families and we're so excited to have such an amazing woman in our corner.

Second, we got in touch (Finally!!) with a past volunteer of our program. She did the teaching track in our program, but nonetheless, she had some great info about what our life will be like in Rwanda. She told us about our house, our village and some of the cool things we must do while we're there. She also put us in touch with someone who has done our exact track, Gender-Based Violence Prevention, and we just reached out to her a couple days ago.

Finally, a good friend of mine is living in South Africa until the end of next year and he and I are trying to get a little Kigali-Jo'burg visit straightened out. I've been dying to see Jo'burg since we started planning this trip and now, I have a friend there that I can meet up with for the obligatory siteseeing!!

Generally, things are coming together - exciting things at that. There's literally, only one more step. Okay - one more GIANT step - and a few (lots) little things and this is on our doorstep. We've got some flights to book and some moving to do, but, aside from that, we're on the downhill side of this trip and it is exciting. Just a few more weeks of shoestring budgets and discount shopping before booking the big flight. Then, we're basically good to go.

It's an amazing time right now and we're literally looking in to the bright light at the end of this tunnel, which will open into another HUGE tunnel of adventure. We hear there are abundent baboons in this tunnel. And elephants and hippos... this tunnel is probably the best thing ever. We love this tunnel.