Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Into Rwanda and the Rainforest

Very quickly,

I am now in Rwanda. It rained all day.

I took a beaten up bus for about 11 hours across the countryside of Uganda to get here.

Crossing the border was quite intense....the Rwanda military was out in force and i dont think they liked me too much.....whats new.

Everything is French, even the keyboard, so typîng is slow.

So far i feel safe enough.... the town i am in, kigali, was the center of the genocide of 1994. if you have ever seen the movie Hotel Rwanda, it takes place here in this town.

I must leave it is very dark out and its rainy and i am not sure where to go now.

I hope to find a bus into the deeper rainforest to the east tomorrow...and we start shooting genocide memoirs in a small town Ntarama.

Cheers,

ben

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