On the way to that expedition we took the dala dala yet again (we’re becoming experts) and I think there were more people in the car than we’ve seen yet. Keep in mind, in the United States these vans may be 12 passenger vans, but I think they’re even smaller. Yesterday on our way back from Njiro there were 27 people in the van at one point. Just try to wrap your head around that and I’ll try to post a picture at some point.
And now for a funny story and an observation:
So the other day during international law class somehow the topic of dating came up. Our professor, Sipho, always the professional, then told us about when his wife was pregnant and the nurse asked if they wanted to know the sex of the child. He responded, “No. Because if it’s a boy I’m going to have to go buy drinks for everyone and if it’s a girl I’m going to have to go buy a gun for all those men that are going to try to date her!” Hahaha!
On a more serious note…
In our human rights class yesterday we read the Universal Declaration for Human Rights along with all of the constitutions of East African countries. Most of the constitutions contained the exact same rights written in varying levels of legal jargon, but the Rwandan Constitution, written in 2003, stuck out. Article 13 of the Fundamental Human Rights and the Rights and Duties of the Citizen states, “Revisionism, negationism and trivialisation of genocide are punishable by the law.” I thought this was incredibly interesting and is probably part of the reason that Rwanda is recovering so well from the genocide. As long as everything is acknowledged and out in the open then everyone can move forward.
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