Monday June 7th

Monday June 7^th

Sorry I haven’t updated this in a couple of days. Thursdays are becoming my day to do nothing. I spend the day reading, praying and listening to worship music. So that is what I did Thursday and then I also have Bible study on Thursday nights. Friday I went back out to the Center and when I got off my taxi I saw a guy who had the same skin color as me. I went up to him and said hello and he seemed very surprised. Is name is Aaron and he is from Canada and is in medical school and is here on like a month internship I believe. So we hung out for awhile since he didn’t know anyone else around. I am meeting all these random people.

Friday I also got to sit in on one of the English classes at the Center which was kind of cool. After school I heard some of the students complaining to a staff member that they weren’t happy about some stuff at the Center stuff like not having any shoes. Most of the students just wear sandals around. Two days this last week I got to ride home with one of the teachers from the Lutheran school and we had some good talks about the world, faith and schooling. I was very blessed by our conversation.

Saturday I went back out to the Center to play basketball with some of the guys. I think we ended up with like 15 guys including me and just played 3 on 3 games to 3 point. My team was pretty good. We won a lot of games but I started dragging toward the end. I may have better skills on the court but these kids also have teenage legs. I was so tired by the time we ended. I might need to take myself out ofthese games and watch. Sunday I again laid low. I still hadn’t found a church yet, so a couple of the people I have met here invited me to come to church with them. It is a 6pm English service and it is about a 25 min. walk. I enjoyed the service very much. The worship was great and so was the message. It will be my church for the rest of my time here in Rwanda. Got home kind of late because it is an African church service they go on and on. Monday today I have devotionals every morning at AEE which was great and then I headed to the Center. I am still trying to figure out what is going on out at the Center and what my role is going to be out there. I should up today and they were handing out new shoes to the students. Most of them complained because they didn’t like the shoes. I liked some of them and was trying to figure out a way to get some for myself. So I was pretty stoked to see them get new shoes. One of the projects that we have been working on out at the Center is to get a library up and running. We have 1000 books coming in July so we are trying to get this one class room ready to go. After school we had about 10 students come into the classroom to help clean the walls and windows. I have never students work so hard.

I will post pictures of the cleaning time. We also had some art & crafts time today. That is about it for now.

Prayer requests: The staff at AEE in Kigali and the staff at the Center.

I still miss home.

I get frustrated with this culture and how things work or don’t work.

The students at CFC.

In Him,

Mark