We were then off to the bus station to take a public bus to
Kibuye. We loaded our gear onto the bus,
when Ankit and Sonya decided that we needed snacks for the 3 hour bus
ride. Off they went to look for snacks
and off the bus went to Kibuye. As Andy
tried to get the bus to stop and wait, we spotted them a few feet from the
bus. We yelled but of course the bus
station had hundreds of people milling around, deafening noise, cars, buses and
motorcycles all making their way to the exit. Andy made the executive decision as team
leader and leapt from a back window of the moving bus. He succeeded in gathering Ankit and Sonya and
made it back to the bus. With the
snacks!!
Once we arrived in Kibuye, we transferred to the preferred
local transit solution, Motos. These are
motorcycles, where we ride behind the driver with our backpacks while the
driver manages our suitcase straddled between the handle bar and gas tank. The moto ride from Kibyue to the orphanage takes a little over an hour
on a dirt road, the mud holes are large enough that we actually had to off road
around a bus that was stuck up to its axles.
This turned out to be quite the
ab workout.
It is hard to describe how beautiful the orphanage is. It is obvious there has been a tremendous
amount of work and love that has gone into l’esperance. All the buildings are brightly colored, they
have planted gardens throughout the grounds and all the kids were shouting “Andy!”
“Ankit!” as we arrived. After a tour of
the orphanage we spent the rest of the evening playing with the kids.
Today we got on to the task of monitoring past projects and
surveying the compound area. I will end
the suspense now, everything is working great!
The surveying took a little longer than expected as we had the
assistance of 10-20 kids the entire time.
We finished the day with some soccer and volleyball.
Have a Happy New Year!!
Steve
Steve
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