...Where I would see/feel/do/experience/be, and that at the end of it, you just feel emotionally full. They told me this is normal. I take solace in their words.
I can honestly say...I have seen some stuff now.
On Sunday we went to Bwiza. We were going to go on Saturday, but Rwanda has once a month mandatory community service day, and it was on Saturday. This is where everyone in the community gets together and they do local projects (mostly involves cleaning). Kinda cool. :)
Bwiza is the village that Karl (PSA) and HDI has been working with for over three years, and these are my perceptions of:
Their Challenges:
-Low Quality Land
-Lack of Proper Housing
-Food
Their Resources/Strengths:
-Being Alive
-Heath
-Happiness
We arrived and they smiled so brightly, clapped, and hugged us like we were all family. The love during the introduction was incredible. I got a quick tour of the village, saw the terraces, the well, met the people, and then started a little side project.
This project involves recording the lullabies that the women sing to the children, as well as the stories they tell (I have a bunch already that I need to get translated). I asked the oldest woman in the village if she remembered the stories or songs her mother told her (she grew up in the jungle). She looked at me laughed and said that her memory is not that good (of course all of this is translated via Olivia).
Okay we are leaving here.. be back on later.
Love you very much and miss you tons!
Lizzie
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
my family told me there would be days like this......
Posted by Elizabeth on 2:45 AM
3 comments:
if you weren't being affected by all that you are seeing/experiencing then you wouldn't be human. take a deep breath and hang in there lil one. you are very loved :o)
HI HONEY,
JUST IMAGINE I`M FIXING YOU A CUP OF TEA : )
I AGREE WITH CLARE--YOU HAVE A BIG HEART--DO WHAT YOU CAN WITH WHAT YOU HAVE AND KNOW WE LOVE YOU. MUM AND PAPPY XOXOXO
"There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul."
- Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)
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