Wrap up

Home safe.
The last few days in Rwanda were terrific. After the safari, We had our last day of filming at Immaculate. What we thought was going to be a two or three hour shoot ran well over, with good reason. The school was having a feast to close their celebration of Catholic Education Week. This feast was basically a talent show and sending off party for us. Traditional dance groups performed, the choir sang, and we were presented with gifts. Christine and I presented the headmistress with the guitar, and they asked me to play a song. I panicked at first, with no idea what to play, but then settled on Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town by Pearl Jam. it's a song about remembering, and I asked our friend Olivier, one of their English teachers, to translate that short synopsis for them before I played. It went over really well, and they loved the guitar. Success!
Their dances and songs were unbelievable, and Christine was able to get almost all of it on film.
My trip home couldn't have been better. I made some new friends along the way, and talked to people at every stage of the trip. I'm pretty sure I've resigned myself to live and work in Paris at some point in my life.
The experience overall was moving, unsettling, beautiful, challenging, rewarding, and very, very worthwhile. Glad to be home safe.
I'm going to wrap up the blog here, but PLEASE email or call me if you want to talk. I'm still doing my best to make sense of my experiences, and I've found the best way to do that is to talk about them.
I'll be living in Boston most of the summer, and home to New York for two weeks in the beginning of September. After that, I'm driving out to LA to try and hack it as an assistant engineer are the Jungle Room.
Slightly updated photos are up on the linked slideshow now, and in the next two or three days, there will be much better ones from Christine's SLR.
Thanks so much for reading, all the well-wishing was completely instrumental in the trip going as well as it did.
Love. Love. Love.