Parties, parties, and more parties!

Before I left Rwanda to return to the US for the holidays , my social calendar was quite booked with a number of parties going on around town. I hosted several of these parties at the Bridge2Rwanda house and attended many other “end of the year” parties at Sonrise. All my friends from home laughed and said I was the only person they knew who would move to the middle of Africa and host dinner parties:)

Here are pictures from a party I threw at the house for all of the Sonrise teachers to celebrate the end of the year.

Future senior class party! I gave my oldest students a party to celebrate the arrival their senior year. They loved having their own class party.

The students trying to teach me the traditional Rwandan dances... pretty much a lost cause!

Here is a video of the breakdance team's performance at a school party. Yes, they have a breakdance team:) Pretty impressive moves! Kind of makes me hurt just watching it.

My last hoorah in the village before I left, with the little kids trying to teach me the traditional dances. They were a little more on my level....but I still felt awkward and uncoordinated!

Dance like no one is watching...

This is a video of village children performing traditional Rwandan dances. I never get tired of seeing these kids sing and dance. And they love to put on a show! Ahhh....to dance with complete abandonment, to sing with hearts of pure joy...what freedom!