My over the top going away party hosted by my lovely momma.
Debbie and Carol seeing me off.
Mitchell and Jeff are enjoying the party too.
Melissa and Brian eating the healthy stuff.
Lovely yogi Eunice showing me around Kigali.
My house.
(Hotel Rwanda)
"Land of a Thousand Hills"
Teaching yoga to our house staff.
My garden.
Still my house.
All in my backyard.
Our laundry is done for us!!!
Rwanda's answer to barbed wire.
Blove.
Blove love.
One of my students at the sewing factory.
They are always laughing and hugging us.
My student wanted to be photographed in front of the bags she and the others have made.
Deirdre teaching yoga at the sewing factory.
Sophie is the boss.
Eunice teaches Treasure how to use the camera.
My Sunday students.
A street kid.
All these kids are affected by HIV.
Candida (our gardener and weekend cook) getting a bit comfy with Delphine.
The market.
Still at the market.
Outside my neighborhood.
Typical and Hysterical storefront.
Meeting people as we walk around town.
One of my little students took this photo.
And this one.
And this one too.
Deirdre teaching yoga.
Kids I met along my journey to find a place I can get my eyebrows done. I was not successful but the I did have a nice walk.
Man selling flowers.
This woman is carrying tons of bottles probably to turn in for money. I asked if I could help her, but I don't think she understood.
Black dots? Look closely, those are the crows that fill the sky each evening. Some say they are the ghosts of those killed in the genocide.
My pasta topping of cheese, tomato, eggplant and basil.
Eunice documenting Thanksgiving.
String beans with slivered almonds and red onion.
Roasted Veggies
Egide
The school on Murambi hill where between 40,000 and 60,000 assembled for protection but were slaughtered within four days. It now serves as a genocide memorial.
The victims' clothes.
Where the French troops who aided the perpetrators raised their flag.
Africa.
Holding a child at the hospital.
Mom with her sick kid.
Chanuka in Rwanda
A plaque in the children's section of the Genocide Memorial here in Kigali
Graves outside the memorial
The surrounding hills.
The Memorial Center
My tragic flower series inspired by Elyssa
The German Embassy
Signs of protest against the arrest of Rose Kabuye, a Rwandan Government offical. She was taken in Germany while at a conference despite international law that prohibits this.
Rose is charged with orchestrating the shooting down of a plane carrying former President Habyarimana. This act is regarded as having precipitated the genocide.
Rose was moved to France, a country that safely harbors many others much more likely to have been perpetrators of the genocide.
The Belgian Memorial. Bullet holes.
The room 10 Belgian UN peacekeepers were killed in.
The Rwandan and Belgian flags. In the middle a plaque depicting each of the soldiers.
Messages from families members of the deceased preserved on a chalk board.
Go Sox!
Logan and Claire
Crowds came out to watch Obama!
Street kid in fresh clean clothes thanks to my cousin Danielle's generous donation. He could not stop smiling.
Eunice, Lisa, Mary and I out for Chinese at Flamingo Restaurant
One of the kids my cousin's donated clothes went to.
Constantine- WE-ACTx receptionist and yoga student
Yoga Student
Last day at the sewing co-op.
Yoga mat bags made by our ladies.
Taxis in Rwanda.
Buses in Rwanda
The donors arrive at the children's program.
Love
Lukas with one of the children. Her face is scarred from her own parents trying to kill her when she was born.
The children love taking pictures.
Naseem
Jocelyn
Giving donated clothes to a street kid.
Rwandan Bar.
This is how all the women carry their babies in Rwanda.
A street child receiving donated clothes from my cousin.
I love these flowers!
Our guard Joseph.
His artwork in his hut.
Out with friends for my last night.
With Donna Rae at the Mille Colline
Lukas
No one wanted their drinks so I volunteered!
Sean Casey.
More from Joseph's hut.
My neighborhood.
Rwandans answer to Starbucks.
The grocery store where I hung out daily!
Saying goodbye to Seraphine.
Seraphine and Josie
