Half Way Highlights

So I can hardly believe that I have already been here for almost three weeks, time has flown by. Not too much has happened this week but I have a couple of highlights to share.

Week Three Highlights:
1. Seeing a lady remove the medical mask covering her mouth to smoke her cigarette.
2. Walking home from school today with a cow walking next to me on the sidewalk. I use the term sidewalk loosely because it is more like a dirt trail.
3. The children during play time on Monday were playing in the fire that was burning the schools trash. They don't really have garbage disposal here instead they just burn everything and they decided to do it during the time the kids were at break, pretty sure that it was not a safe situation.
4. The little girl in my class that called me Muzungo, white person, and then cried will now come close to me and stare at me. We don't talk but at least she isn't crying anymore.
5. One of my kids wet his pants today during break time so that was great.
6. Playing with butterflies at school. My children ripped up a poster board and poked holes it in with a stick. They then attached them to a piece of string from a potato sack and ran around with them. They looked more like kites to me but some reason they call them butterflies. One little girl wanted to attach the string of hers to a stick that was twice her size so that was kinda cute to see.
7. We attended a cultural dinner and dance in town the other night and those people can shake their hips and butt like you have never seen. Once they were done performing they invited us to join them and I should have known better than to sit in the first row. They grabbed our hands and pulled us in and to say the least I could dance nothing like them.
8. We visited an orphanage for children, under the age of three, Tuesday afternoon. The children has very few toys, really only a small play ground area. The babies each had their own cribs and then some of the older kids would sleep two or three to a twin size bed. When we arrived they all wanted to be held but as soon as you put them down they would scream and cry. They just wanted to be held and loved.
9. Today we went to Arusha, a town about an hour away, to listen to the Rwanda Tribunals. Unfortunately we didn't get to stay very long but it was quite interesting.

Well that is about all that has happened this week. It is crazy to think that people are going home this weekend. Right now we have 19 volunteers in the house and this weekend six will be leaving including my two roommates. I feel like we just got here and now people are leaving, time really goes by fast. Anyways I am heading to bed. Miss you all.