Some have asked, “how is Africa?”

I’m not sure how the continent as a whole is holding up, but Rwanda:

- Has lots of live chickens being carried to the market by their feet,
- cars have emission standards that would make al gore cry
- has houses where water comes from the tap and houses were water comes from a man with plastic jugs tied precariously to the back of his bicycle
- People smell like children and babies and wood burning stoves and life
- Some people smell like perfume
- I smell like baby powder
- You can tell who has done laundry by the rawness of their knuckles
- Soda is better. I don’t care what you think-Coke and Fanta are the best in Africa
- Sometimes wakes me up with the call to prayer, sometimes wakes me up with dogs barking
- Has the best mangoes I have ever tasted
- Is making me think. A lot.
- Full of friends, some from Rwanda, some from elsewhere
- And mostly covered in dust, from feet to head to backpack and especially, most surprisingly, to underwear. Red dust everywhere.

When it is dusty, the rain is coming.