Hope you're enjoying summer.
I just came across these videos on YouTube and had to share. They're videos of where I lived in Tanzania for approx. half a year. Now having been home for several months, looking at these videos blows my mind a bit. I can't believe I was actually there, and that I am so blessed to live the life I live here.
Here's a video of some Tanzanians interviewed about the Rwandan genocide (the subtitles are obviously in English, but the language they're speaking is Kiswahili...what I learned while I was there, or at least attempted to). The waterfall in the beginning of the video is Rusumo Falls, at the border crossing between Tanzania and Rwanda, one I crossed many, many times. When you see the river and the hand pulled ferry, I also crossed that way several times to get to the border crossing at Rusumo Falls. I met foreigners where I lived in Ngara who had lived there since the genocide, and they attested to measuring how bad the violence was in Rwanda by counting the number of bodies that floated down the river per hour. Anyways, here's the video:
And...a video of my town I lived in! This one's super crazy, because my ex co-worker Pastor appears in one of the shots (at 2:08) Also crazy because I never in a million years would have thought I could have found a video of Ngara online. Its so remote, but this is a video from a past volunteer. This was my city and my life for almost six months:
Enjoy a greater glimpse into my time in Tanzania....
