Sunday

5:40- Wake up to the sound of birds screeching outside my window.

5:50- Try my hardest to go back to sleep.

6:00- Fail miserably.

6:10- Get up and shower and whatnot to prepare for the day.

6:40- Eat some breakfast.

7:00- Go to school to take advantage of the free Internet with no one else around to steal the bandwidth.

10:00- Go to church at Christ’s Church in Rwanda (CCR).  My favorite thing about CCR is that we sing songs in English, Swahili, Kinyarwanda, and Lingala. 

12:00- Walk home and grab a quick bite to eat.

12:30- Walk down the hill to a moto-taxi to ride to the bus station.

12:45- Attempt to purchase a bus ticket for the next bus to Ruhengeri only to have the woman behind the counter try to make me feel stupid by speaking the time of my ticket in Kinyarwanda and subsequently lie to me about the time of departure of the next bus which isn’t full. 

12:50- Sit sulkily on the steps at the bus station, fuming about the 4:00 bus ticket I hold in my hand.

1:00- Get out a book to read to pass the time.

1:20- A ticket taker comes and exchanges my ticket for the next bus:  1:30!

1:30- The bus departs for Ruhengeri.  I will spend the next two hours either listening to my iPod to drown out the rest of the world, taking a nap, or grading papers for my classes on Monday.

3:30- Arrive in Ruhengeri and moto to Sonrise to hang out for the afternoon.

3:45- Hang out with my girls at Sonrise all afternoon.

6:00- Eat the beans and rice I’ve been missing out on since I moved to Kigali.

7:00- Head to the house to hang out with Betsy, Anna, and Griffin for the evening.

9:30-  Go to sleep in the other bed in my old bedroom.