{"id":53,"date":"2019-10-01T06:31:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T06:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/khsrwanda\/?p=53"},"modified":"2019-10-01T06:31:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T06:31:36","slug":"third-day-in-rwanda-gavins-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/khsrwanda\/2019\/10\/01\/third-day-in-rwanda-gavins-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Day in Rwanda \u2013 Gavin\u2019s Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blog post 3 from Gavin in S5!<\/p>\n

Day 3 started off with a delightful breakfast consisting of a variety of different fruits such as pineapples and some other tasty looking fruits (I don’t exactly know what they were).\u00a0 There were also some lovely pancakes which were gone within seconds.<\/p>\n

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The first order of business today was going to the genocide memorial site in Kigali.\u00a0We all were expecting to see some pictures of what was in store for us but I wasn’t prepared for what I experienced in there and some other members of the group can agree. When we left the guest house it was a tough time as we were in the middle of a storm.\u00a0 Dr Murray and I decided to wear shorts out there – some of the members thought I was completely insane! After about a 20 minute drive roughly we arrived at the memorial.\u00a0 The group got off the bus and we went to the main reception\/gift shop where we watched a short clip of some survivors testimonies.\u00a0 This gave the group a taster of what we would soon see in the<\/p>\n

actual mueseum.<\/p>\n

We soon made our way into the main building and we slowly and somewhat mythodically went through the exhibits.\u00a0 The first area of the exhibit was explaining what was happening in Rwanda before the genocide.\u00a0 Belgian colonialists had occupied Rwanda for a long time and introduced many things to the populus such as Christianity for example.\u00a0 The belgians had also pretty much implemented the racial system which seperated the entire populus into the 2 main groups after many tests (basically like when The Nazis racially profiled the Jewish population).<\/p>\n

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We then got to the area which talked about the beginning of the genocide.\u00a0 It all kicked off after decades of planning by the Hutu people against the Tutsis when the leader of Rwanda’s plane was shot down.\u00a0 Most of the politicians that were against the idea of the genocide were slaughtered brutally.\u00a0 Roadblocks and chaos started to reign and I was quite shocked at the fact that the final nail in the coffin was the slaughter of the govermental power in the country.\u00a0 The next several months were completely brutal as hundreds of thousands of people were mutilated and massacred like cattle in a slaughterhouse.\u00a0 Some of the pictures I saw of the genocide had horrified me and had definitely changed me.\u00a0 After a walk through seeing bones and other things we had entered the area which had told us of some of the children that perished during the crisis.\u00a0 There was a picture of a little baby at only 9 months which was brutally murdered by Hutu militants. This completely gave me the chills and I felt very worried thinking of my own siblings.<\/p>\n

\"\"After we got through the rest of the exhibits we had lunch back at the guest house consisting of sandwiches with egg, salad and garlic with some chips which were basically like what we have in Scotland.\u00a0 We then got back on the bus and we started to make our way to Nduba which is a poorer region of Kigali.\u00a0 On the way there we went to the market and we bought several sacks of food consisting of cassavas, bananas and Irish sweet potatoes (tatties).\u00a0 I had the lovely job of handing the money over to the people.\u00a0I had to use my mental maths skills (which are completely terrible) to calculate how much I had to give them.\u00a0I eventually did it and I returned to the bus to see that most of the seats were occupied by sacks of food.<\/p>\n

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We got on our way to Nduba and halfway there some of the potatoes went flying towards Dr Murray.\u00a0 \u00a0As we arrived we were welcomed by the group occupying the area.\u00a0 We gave introductions in Rwandan tongue to test ourselves (I was completely terrible).\u00a0 We listened to the elder people of the village which were heartwarming.\u00a0 I was then asked to announce to them all what we had bought them.\u00a0 They were all so happy and we gave them the food.\u00a0 They were all very thankful and shortly after we had a sing along about a girl who lost a red ‘Yo-Yo’ which was confusing but they loved it.\u00a0We also listened to them sing and Dr Murray and one of the older gentlemen had a ‘dance off’ which I thought Dr Murray won. they thanked us for everything and it was so sad to leave them. Hannah was holding one of the babies which was quite sweet to be honest.<\/p>\n

\"\"Once we got back eventually we had a lovely dinner of spaghetti, meatballs and pizza (which had pineapple and ham on it), then some of the group went to the local shop close to the guest house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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