28 hours in a bus.

Africa is nothing like I expected.

 

            Desert
like conditions with savannah grass and such.

            Extreme
heat.

            Really
slow internet – not easily accessible

            Crazy
dangerous.

            I expected to have to fight off a ton of blood-thirsty bugs at all hours of the day and night.

            I expected to ride old busses, crammed in with a bunch of
Africans and livestock.

            I expected to eat only ugali for every meal.

            I expected to “rough it”.

 

 

Africa is nothing like that. Ok, maybe in some places, but
not where I’ve been so far.

Kenya is pretty cold – especially in the evenings. So far
Rwanda is too. There are plenty of places in the city where internet is fast
and accessible. The food here is delicious!! So far we’ve stayed in houses with
our ministry contacts and their families, had bathrooms with REAL toilets, and
mattresses to sleep on! We roughed it way more in Asia – but we were also in
the middle of no-where our first 4 months.

 

The bus ride from Nairobi, Kenya to Kigali, Rwanda was nice,
easy, and beautiful – 

and there were no chickens!

 

I am so surprised by how beautiful the landscape is here.
During our 28hr bus ride, we passed by open, green, lush valleys filled with
rice and corn fields, dormant volcanoes and craters, mountains that could have
been the Rockies, and rolling hills that reminded me of Virginia. It’s
gorgeous!  

On the way to Rwanda, still in Kenya, I looked out the bus window and saw this crater in the middle of a huge, green valley surrounded by beautiful, blue mountains!

This is Rwanda. It’s a BEAUTIFUL country!