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It has been more than a year since we arrived in Rwanda. It has been amazing to watch all of us adjust to this life that is in such stark contrast to the life we lived in Oregon.
in some ways it is so easy to live here. I walk in a store and they either have jelly or they don't, they either have matches or they don't. No choices. Though some more western influenced store owners are starting to carry an imported brand of peanutbuter next to the local one, the choices are still limited. When there is no choice it is almost easier than standing in Safeway's cereal isle and wracking my brain if I should go for the well known brand flakes or just the store brand.
Then there is the frosted, plain with fruit, colored, "organic" and you name it all the kind of flakes to choose from. Life is so much more simplified, I find I appreciate this about my life here.
Nani and Zoey are forced to be creative in their play. They use bottle caps for anything and everything. Sticks, leafs, rocks they become people, animals, baseball bats , basically anything their minds need the items to be. Flowerpeddles are blankets and bugs become giants forming a direct threat to their rock villages and fragile stick people.
Travis, the great socializer, can socialize all he wants as Rwandans believe relationship to be the most important part of life. Yet when local people visit us, I at times have to choose to put a smile on my face, sit, relax and listen to lenghty conversations that in my eyes are a great waste of time... Yet I learned; relationship is everything.
The babies... they don't know any better. They are happy little ones, not having a clue how their life would unfold would we be in the west.

Now along with the lack of choices I want to share a lack of choice that is very hard on Nani and Zoey and thus on us. It is schooling. The school year goes from January through November in Rwanda. Naan and Zo were in a more international school, the best English speaking school in Rwanda. Though accademically they thrived we noticed changes in their characters that greatly concerned us. But with the long school days (7am-3.15 pm) and loads of homework there was little time for correction. But we kept trying hard to work with our girls as this was the only decent schooling option we had. Last May we had to take the girls out of school as we had no money for school fees. What seemed to be a horrible thing turned into someting good. We worked with the girls and their attitudes changed positively! What a good thing! But still... what to do with school. Next month, in September a CHISTIAN INTERNATIONAL school starts with the focus on missionary families. The school will be ran by people from the states and have an American curriculum. The girls, Trav and I are tickled pink about this new schooling option. What an answer to prayer. The girls would learn more about the Lord in school. Proper values and morals will be the norm among students and teachers. Just too good to be true.
Now we are left with the same problem... the money. We received a big love gift allowing us to register the girls for the school, but on our current budget that is as good as it gets. The school will cost us $1600 per child per school year, starting next month. Like any parent, we want what is best for our children. Missionaries or not, the development of our children is no less important.
If you can think of creative ways to help Nani and Zoey, please contact us; Travis@globalfamilyrescue.org