Welcome to Rwanda!

Well, we are in Rwanda and glad and excited about what lies ahead of us!
This has definitely been a learning experience for me when it comes to travel. If you read my saga of my trip from Oklahoma to Belgium, you might be interested to know that the saga does not end there and continues on as I type. Because of that missed flight from London to Brussels, when I got to the british airways check in desk, they would not let me check in because I "was not on the flight"! After I had confirmed it twice. And on top of that, after she called SN brussels airlines (through whom the ticket is booked) and said I was on the waiting list, she declared that my bags were overweight. Apparantly according to her I was only allowed the 20 kg weight limit for that BA flight, despite the fact that I called BA a few times from the states to make sure I would be allowed an international allowence all the way through! So, dad and I went to clear it up with the SN desk. I told hte guy my problems, he looked at my stuff, booked me another ticket and confirmed that I was allowed international allowance because my kenya Airways ticket says I can have 2 pieces of luggage. Yey! All set...right? not so fast.....when I got back to the check in desk, the girl said that the flight has been closed already! She called the gate to see if I could still make it and said if I ran I might get on the plane, but there's no way my bags will make it. SO I ran and left my bags with dad to figure it out...sorry dad! And thank you so much. However, BA wont do anything to help me get my bags, eventhough its obviously their fault (and also partially SN's fault). They want dad to send it with cargo, which would cost 350 euros to send, and more to receive on our end. I talked to an SN desk here and they eventually concluded it was not their problem and if I pay for the cargo to send it and give sufficient documents to proove it was not my fault they would eventually pay us back. Now who believes that? Ach, I'm not complaining, I can live fine without my bags...I'm really more frustrated witht he fact that no airline is claiming responsinility and keeps referring me to either the other airline or cargo.

ANyway....I'm in rwanda! These first few days have been days of acclamation, hanging out and running errands. Its been amazing! I love being back in Rwanda. I've ben able to use my Kinyarwandan and French skills, which is really fun to see people's reactions when they realize you speak their language..a little. Its a great way to strike up conversation and start potential relationships.
We will start teaching English at KIST (Kigali Institute of Science and Technology) on Tuesday. I am very excited and slightly nervous. I guess I'm nervous because I've done it before and thus feel like I should do a much better job because I'm "more prepared". We'll see. I am very excited to meet our students. We will also be teaching at SFB (school of finances and business) and I think we have about 200 students total.
We've also already had dinner with the minister of education. That was exciting! they are working on the selection of which students get to take advantage of te scholarships that OC is providing starting this coming semester. I am so excited to get to know the students that will eventually be selected! I didnt really get to talk to the minister because I as obviously not at te head of te table with her...i'm not quite that high up in the 'hierarchical system', but Adam and I had a great conevrsation with her personal assistant! His name is Valence and he told us a lot about the rwandan education system and how they're trying to improve it.
Ok, that's enough for now. Please praise the Lord and thank him for our good and safe trip here (yes, despite my luggage saga) and for all of our health..so far :). And please pray that He continue to lead us in everything we do because really most of the time we dont know what we're doing. We do everything one step at a time and have to be extremely flexible. Praise the Lord for flexibility! Imana Ishimwe!