This month has been full of little adventures. We only have ministry scheduled a couple hours a day so with my free time I have been trying to keep busy with other things I come up with. One thing that my friend Marianne and I thought to do was go visit the YWAM base down the road from us. It is about a 15 minute walk to get there so we ventured out and checked it out. Marianne participated in YWAM 2 years ago so it is something close to her heart. We walked in uninvited and talked to one of the guys in charge of their program. He was very nice and invited us back to watch a soccer game with them sometime. We decided to go back on Saturday night and took some of our friends along.
Our contact; Pastor Solomon, from last month in Uganda came to Rwanda to visit my team and I. We invited him along to watch the game with us and we all had a fun time hanging out and catching up. It was so good to see him, it’s nice to genuinely feel loved and cared for by someone, even someone who was a stranger just a month ago. Everyone had an awesome time, I don’t care much about soccer but it was fun doing something new.
We said our goodbyes to our friends and to Pastor Solomon and started our walk back to our house. It was about 8:30pm so it was dark outside and the streets are poorly lit. There are also holes in between each square of the side walk and many parts of the sidewalk are broken leaving huge holes. There were a lot of people around walking on the sidewalk so I went to the right of some people to get around them. One second I was talking to my friend Emily and the next I was down in a hole full of water and mud.
I was eye level with the sidewalk and in shock and pain. Everything happened really quickly but I ripped my pants, cut my foot, and was ankle deep in water. I climbed out and kept moving not wanting to make much of a scene. I knew I was hurting and probably bleeding and when I got into some light I saw my toe was all bloody. I cleaned it when I got back and although it was (and still is) really painful I am pretty much ok.
I went to the doctor after church on Sunday because our Pastor was concerned about me; I got the wound cleaned and now am on antibiotics just in case there was something bad in the water. I’m going to keep an eye on it just in case but I am fine overall.
Another adventure that I took this past week- that didn’t result in injury, was finding the World Vision office in Kigali, Rwanda. World Vision is an amazing Christian humanitarian organization that I am really interested in partnering with one day. I had an awesome conversation with the man in charge of programming for Rwanda and got even more excited about the possibility of working with them one day.
So you never know what you are going to get when you go on an adventure but it has been keeping me on my toes!
