Made it to Rwanda!!

Today was my first day in Rwanda. I visited all the possible schools that I will be teaching at. The first was a preschool, the second was a primary school, and the third was the school for the blind and orphaned kids. I'll have to make a decision on one of them. I'm not sure what I want to do yet. I'll keep you updated! So far, I walk around feeling like a foreign object. There are two other volunteers here from Britain, and so far they have been very nice. I'm staying at a house owned by the man named Ellie, who runs all the schools I previously mentioned. Ellie has asked me to figure out where I'd like to teach, and then put together a few lessons to teach the kids about how to conserve their environment. Rwanda is known as the country of a thousand hills, but I think I've already seen a thousand, so there must be a million! The drive to Ellie's house from the Kigali airport was 2 1/2 hours long, so I had a good chance to see a lot of the land. In the next couple of days, I'm going to meet with someone that works for a Gorilla research center, and see if I can do some work with them for a week or so. Since I'm a volunteer here, I can basically choose what I'd like to do, which is nice. The land here is very green, and everything seems very healthy, even though its the end of the dry season. Evidently the wet seasons starts in September, so I'm expecting a lot of rain. I'll post pictures soon!