December 29th 4:50 am
Ah Kigali. There is nothing quite like waking up rediculously earily for absolutely no reason and realizing that you are in the middle of Africa. What a rush. Christian and I did some sunrise yoga followed by a wonderful breakfast while we waited for the bums to wake. Toast and jam and fresh bananas and pineapple, so tasty. We then met Mezack to discuss plans, followed by a short walk up to downtown Kigali. It is a very surreal and yet sobering experience to walk past the presidential palace with guards on every corner carrying AK-47's and run down buildings on the other. The mall itself was not remarkable, very basic yet had pretty much everything you would expect, just smaller. We enjoyed the scene for a while, getting aclimated to the people, then returned to our hotel to talk to Willy. Lastly Willy and the gang drove to Safintra and we talked to some Indians about the grades of the steel. Which they didn't know. We decided to take some samples and test back in the US to determine the quality and strength. We ended the night with some Ethopian food, a smrogusborge of different foods, and Nikki and I (Jake) waited for three hours for our luggage. Which arrived. Sweet fresh underwear, holy cow it is nice to have clean clothes. That ended the day, tomorrow we travel to Cyanika.
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