oh how internet time flies

Hey all, this will be a very quick update but the past easter weekend was too great not to comment on. On Wednesday two other volunteers and I went to a funeral for one of our students grandfathers. It was amazinging done and very emotional. The amount of color everyone wore just made me so happy...pink, purple, green, red, and shapes and patterns of every type. The family in mourning wore white, and I really liked that. On Thursday, we went to the neighboring Arusha and listened in on the International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda, where they continue to question witnesses about the events of the 1994 genocide. Its conducted by the UN and is translated into english for people who want to watch. It was really interesting. For more info check out ictr.org. Classes are currently on spring break, so life at the hostel has been calm. Easter was really fun, with a 16 person family dinner and more dessert than imaginable. Everyone had to make something from they home country, and then you had to try everything...I got a pretty bad stomach ache by the end. But it was really fun. Yesterday we played beach volleyball, Africa style, which meant a sprinkler and a net that was actually a strung up mosquito net. It was really fun. Today is really really rainy, but its good that the rainy season has finally come as the corn crops were very dry. Today a few of us are heading to the fabric market as the fabric here is beautiful and its pretty easy to get clothes made just for you...Hope everyone else had a good easter as well and ate lots of chocolate!