First off – why is the main photo for Rwanda a friggin gorilla? That tweaks me!

Anyhow…

Rwanda may very well be the first country in the motherland that I (re)visit. I’ve met a woman through couchsurfing.com who is going back to visit in March of 07 & I may accompany her then.

Rwanda is very dear to me – as the whole of Afrika is also – but special because of the genocide, what her people have struggled through & still are resilient.

My dear friend, brother, is from Rwanda – he survived the genocide & the camps that followed. He’ll never go back – it would mean his life! As much empathy as I have I simply cannot imagine that reality.

I want to go to see Rwanda’s beauty that remains – to see & talk with those who are there… to hear their stories if they care to share – to simply listen…

I hope it to be some sort of healing of this terrible tragedy for me & perhaps for others in return…