The buddha Said I am Awake

 Please go here to access Mr. Woods’ and Angelina’s Uganda / Rwanda 2015 Summer Travel series.

Ntarama Church also in the Bugasero District, two miles down the road from  Nyamata,  was closed when we arrived.  Go here for a poignant interview with a survivor.

One thing continually haunted me in Kigali, actually everywhere in Rwanda.  With each individual that I looked at, that I talked with,  I wondered almost immediately “What was your role?  What did you do?  Were you a victim? A perpetrator?  Did you play along?  Or were you forced to watch your parents to be cut to death?  Were you raped…or did you rape?  It’s really tough not to go there.  Almost simultaneously you want to demand an answer, “Tell me.  Tell me.  Tell me.”  But you can’t.  I didn’t, I don’t  have the right to ask such questions.

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“Cozy, Clean, and Friendly at a Great Price” by Bob Wood

Please go here to access Mr. Woods’ and Angelina’s Uganda / Rwanda 2015 Summer Travel series.

I think where people who don’t travel the third world regularly are most mistaken, is that in their minds eye view of the hotels available to normal folks like you and me, they see nothing but squalor.  That is absolutely not the case.  Hotels in an East African state like Rwanda run the gamut, from overpriced, overdone “just like in the USA”  Marriotts, to budget hostels at ten bucks a night.  Sometimes I believe people think that I’m sleeping in a dumpster by the side of the road, when in fact a lot of these cheap budget hotels are lovely little places. Continue reading →