Got up a bit early today, some highlights from yesterdays trip to kigutu
On a street corner in bujumbura, one of my fav pics from yesterday
Deo's bro and I @ Village Health Works !
Outside looking in
Laughing with the fam!
Hanging out in Burundi!
Amahoro (peace)
I am so tired having just spent 4hrs on a car going back and forth from kigutu and then coming back. I am also getting a bit queasy, I think I ate some bad juice the other day. Other than that though had a really good day. got to meet Deo's parents and brothers and also got to see his home. Its a small brick building made of concrete with no running water or electricity, no rugs on the floors, only a couple of pictures on the wall, one of deo at his graduation etc and several gaudy pictures of plastic fruit. Dinner was being prepared while i was there. Casava, a low nutrient tuber/root that is ground into white powder and then mixed with water into a gruel like mealy substance and then eaten with beans and maybe some banana or rice. Deos parents look like they are in their eighties but are really 20 years younger than that. Despite all this, they offered to us what they had, hugged us all like their own children and wished us well on our journey. Its really quite amazing how human beings can exist in such disparate circumstances.
another interesting thing, one notices how developed often times by the language that is used for greeting. when i talked to Deos dad, the first thing he asked was, is everyone in your family well? an allusion I believe to wartime and the uncertainty of fleeing for ones life without being able to account for all of ones family members. anyway just some rambling thoughts which i will organize and tell you more about with pictures when i get back