My Piece of Art

The views in the village are incredible. My favorite view in the village is the view from the school. I enjoy standing on this bench that surrounds the flag pole and looking out into the distance. From there one can see the entire village, 2 lakes in the distance, and a beautiful mural. The mural was a project of one of the volunteers from last year. She had all the students involved in the painting of the mural. The colors are vivid and it's a great addition to the village.

I can imaging how amazing if felt for that volunteer that she had worked so hard and contributed a beautiful piece of artwork to the village. It's a challenge for the volunteers. We come all this way to hopefully have a positive impact on the village and contribute something to the success. In the day-day craziness of life here, it's sometimes hard to remember. Sometimes it's hard to feel that you are making a difference. I keep saying that sometimes I;m jealous of the volunteer who worked on the artwork. She has such a beautiful reminder of her hard work. I had a real sense of satisfaction in my work yesterday. As you probably know from my other posts, I've been working very hard on bringing hens to the village so that we can have eggs. Yesterday for the first time, each students got on egg from the hens on our farm. That's my piece of artwork for the village. It was soooo exciting...I'd been working very hard on getting hens here. As I ate my egg, I noticed 2 yokes...the Rwandan next to be said it was good luck. It definitely felt good. I have lots of satisfaction in the fact that I helped to bring fmore protein to the kids in the village.