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Ortpn Resthouse Butare

Nyungwe National Park Butare, Rwanda

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Girls Leading Our World

A travel blog entry by k0e0n0z

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... they learn at camp with their peers back home. I also think regional camps great because they reach girls living the more rural areas whose English isn't as strong (so they would not have been eligible for the national camp) but who need the information taught at GLOW camp the most.

The first ever Nyanza GLOW Camp tool place from November 14-18, November 14-16 was training for facilitators and the actual camp was from ...

Food Culture

A travel blog entry by k0e0n0z

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... I thought to myself, one of the first things you are asked about when you live in a new country is “What’s the food like?” and I’ve never addressed this question in my blog so I will take the time now to do so.

Rwandans’ relationship with food is totally different from how we relate to food back home, or at least how my family and I eat. When Rwandans eat, they eat and then they don’t eat for a really long time. ...

African Anniversary

A travel blog entry by k0e0n0z

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... 8217;s wedding, back to *****, to Morocco, and finally to Rwanda. I spent 6 months in *****, 1 month in Morocco, and 5 months in Rwanda. I have attended baptisms, funerals, many for people who died too young, notably fellow volunteer Stephanie Chance, and weddings in the US, *****, and Rwanda. I have weathered two serious infections, tooth problems resulting from eating rocks, an impressive cocktail of amoebas and bacteria that was discovered after I left *****, ...

This pen is my pen, this pen is your pen....

A travel blog entry by k0e0n0z

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... awkwardness as they struggle to find themselves. Here I don’t sense that. In truth this could be in part because of my cultural density but I also think that here there just isn’t that same struggle to "find yourself." Here you have known the same people all of your life. You know exactly what is expected or you. You are doing, for the most part, the same thing your parents did and their parents did and there is a sort of security in that. I ...

Talk English

A travel blog entry by k0e0n0z

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... until independence and thus, adopted the French school system and language. As part of Rwanda's massive and impressive drive for development, the government decided that English would be more beneficial than French for its citizens. I understand that last year was a year of transition and this is the first year when school is supposed to be taught entirely in English. My colleagues, ...

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