In the morning I went to the Iteams office to catalogue all the donations they've received for the past few years. The bike guy dropped me in the right area but at the wrong office, and while I was waiting for Jen to come and find me, I fell down a storm drain. It only hurt my pride.
At the office there are two rooms chock a block full of resources, one with clothes, the other with stationary and other supplies. I worked for two hours but didn't make much of a dent.
In the afternoon I went to Enoch's house. Again, I went by bike, and this guy took me to completely the wrong place. See, I don't know where anything is, so you just have to trust that they take you to the right place! I got there in the end, after Enoch gave directions to a different bike guy by phone. His house had just been burgled the night before, and they literally took everything. Clothes, furniture, mattress! So we sat on the floor in an empty room and had lunch.
Then I went for my first Kinyarwanda lesson. It took us about an hour to get through all the different consonant groups (pictured). For example, 'nshyw' is pronounced 'n chu gwa' and 'mw' is pronounced 'mun ga'. And there are 61 consonant groups to learn! Its hard to believe that there are words spelt with 'nshyw' in the middle of them, but Silas my teacher assures me there are.
At the office there are two rooms chock a block full of resources, one with clothes, the other with stationary and other supplies. I worked for two hours but didn't make much of a dent.
In the afternoon I went to Enoch's house. Again, I went by bike, and this guy took me to completely the wrong place. See, I don't know where anything is, so you just have to trust that they take you to the right place! I got there in the end, after Enoch gave directions to a different bike guy by phone. His house had just been burgled the night before, and they literally took everything. Clothes, furniture, mattress! So we sat on the floor in an empty room and had lunch.
Then I went for my first Kinyarwanda lesson. It took us about an hour to get through all the different consonant groups (pictured). For example, 'nshyw' is pronounced 'n chu gwa' and 'mw' is pronounced 'mun ga'. And there are 61 consonant groups to learn! Its hard to believe that there are words spelt with 'nshyw' in the middle of them, but Silas my teacher assures me there are.
Then I stayed at church for some good old fashioned Kinyarwanda praise and worship. I'm getting quite good at it now ;)
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