WE CAN' tWAIT

hello every one for us it is amazing and it was like a dream come true for our coming to America as Ambassadors forsurvivors/orphans .again we are very happy becouse we are going to meet with our friends and make new ones. Realy all our survivors are very much interested to hear that we are going to present our culture in new York.

we are excited to have fun with all students of Satelite academy and Others we will able to meet. we arways rember your good beharvior during your stay here in Rda and hope to learn morefrom you during this trip ,thanks for your mature advice your love and care for us which has enabled me to start my life again /I am doing fine with studies and I hope that I will succeed .
UGIRANEZA UKABISANGA IMBERE KANDI INSHUTI NYANSHUTI IGUSIGA INDI .

Kuleba we are proud of you,you are special to us , only take blessings of God and I hope that your ambition will be great to those who are waiting for you and your help.

Gilbert from Rda





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satellite academy every one is fine? no one stopping school?

HAPPY NEW YEAR OF 2009

Hey all of my friend I hope you are doing fine with joy if it woes take some litter time when we miss together I hope you waiting finish this year in peace and freedom for me 2008 is the unforgotten year in my whole life because I lean more about what reality life is.

now I don't wont forget the friends I meet with coming from NY in august
so other thing are most important this year show me that however my dreams will come true because soon I will start my University
let me thank you all of KUREBA members like AMY,YAEL ,AIMEE and others their try all hard about how I should studier again

So I wish you that 2009 will be a year OF

12 months of love ,52 weeks of chance,366 days of opportunity ,8784 hours of success
to you and your family
UMWAKA UZABABERE UMWAKA WA AMATA NU UBUCYI
I WISH YOU WERE OLDEST
LOVE YOU
Gilbert

OMG LONG TIME NO SEE...

Lissette-Hi everybody its been while since I've wrote. I see my friends have said so much nice things about us. I think about my trip to Africa all the time and i cant believe its been so long since i've been there. It seems just like yesterday when i met Gilbert,Mukiza,and all the other wonderful people of Rwanda. I still have all the gifts they gave me and i keep them in a safe place so i could show them to my kids later in life. I hear Mukiza graduated from High School ( sooooo cool) keep up the good work. I miss them all and im looking forward to next time. As for me Im still doing the college thing and working on my music career. Same o same o. Looking forward to hearing from you guys feel free to email me.(incase you forgot) msdotfit@aol.com 1 love

BIG DISH (CHANCE) MUKIZA

i would like to tell you the way we lived with the NEW YORK GROUP TWICE. the first time they came it was in 2007 they got to the village about 2h00 PM and we met, they were with their headdellegue but soon we went on with Amy & Yael teaching us how to use digital cameras , after came a man called Marcus from New york also . he used to assemble kids and play with them football, the kids were proud of it. we went on listening to what american youth thinks about rwandans youth and life and discusing with them after that we visited homeless people who are victims of the genocide. Amy and Yael told us the way they found rwandan life and said that rwandan are so closed that noone can know about anonther's life that they keep secrets. after we did an exposition of our photos to "yes rwanda" and europans commission we got to the end and felt so sad while they were leaving us but we cotinued our relationship by internet. we felt a lot of confort when they came back kut this time it was for sure because they came with Aimee (teacher), pooch, tiffany, lissette, Maria they got to the airport tired and went to the hotel when they first got at my home, i was polishing my shoes. felt happy to see them and it was time of greetings and having fun before starting the work. we discused about many things ,they were asking quistions and having answers but what impressed us much are quitions of pooch and lissette wich were kindful Maria and Tiffany were visiting village and they've been liked by children so that every body knew their names everywhere we passed ,taxi driver were talking to Tiffany in kinyarwanda thinking that she was rwandan we had great times with them and their teacher "AIMEE" who seemed to have a very simple life, everybody liked it one day they invited us in their hotel for super, but when we got there, we were suprised to see a man cooking because in africa a man is considered as a king and the wife is the one who do it all but after that i begun to do it at home also due to Maria's reason which convinced me. we went on discusing about our cultures and found our culture not at the same livel but we are just different after that we visited th memorial site of Tutsi Genocide of 1994 at gisozi. we climbed gisozi hill. going to the PAN AFRICAN FESTIVAL OF CULTURE AND DANSES; pooch, tiffany & lissette were so tired that they went back to the hotel but i was suprised by the way Maria did it, it awesome think that even she can climb the other 999 hills because you know Rwanda is a country of a thousand hills. we went on having fun with them bying things, shopping, searchin for school's materals and going to the restaurant we were'nt supposed to eat like them because they eat a little but every time but african eats twice in 24hours we had too much fun sharing food with them and talking too much lovely and sweet words that i can't tell because there are closed somewhere in my heart and i've lost the key. the last day all the village was feeling the pain that they were going to leave they came back to the village for the last time and give all of their things that they went back to the hotel without even shoes. and lastly i had to see my lovely group not for the last time because i sure they will come back one day . they did everything to the students of NSANGA village who will study due to the help foundation of this group us youth can't tell you the way we feel about it because it bdeppased us and we can say once again thanks.

Translation of Mukiza's last post

Nostalgia always makes me crazy

First, open your arms wide as birds spread their wings to fly, and then hug me tight. I would like to let you know that since your time with us here in Rwanda, we are very happy to have good friends like you (Amy, Yael, Aimee, Maria, Pooch, Tiffany and Lissette)

Your group has made us happy because it is made up of young people as well as those older than us. We enjoyed your way of life as well as your love. Even if we are sad because of your absence, know that in our hearts we are united.

We would like to sincerely thank you (Satellite Academy) who organized this cultural exchange. May God always watch over you. Each of us has seen how to live with others. We leave you hoping that our correspondence will continue.

Ciao!