Before we embarked on our long bus ride home to Moucecore, we had the amazing opportunity to spend the morning with fellow college students that attended the university in Butare. After breakfast, we drove to the university and were greeting by a number of students. We started off with names and majors, and it was a pleasant surprise to hear that many of the students were studying similar things to us. This opened up many opportunities for great conversation and discussion.
As they showed us around campus and the grounds, we chatted with the students. I got the opportunity to talk with the SCCAR president (the organization that helped organize this trip) about his studies which center around water development. Talking with him felt like talking with people in my own college. They were like us, students with a passion for changing the world around them. Everyone I talked to seemed to have a cause, and it was truly refreshing to know that passionate young people extended across oceans and borders.
This sort of discussion did not stop after our tour. After a brief encounter with some very friendly monkeys that came to say hi from the surrounding forest, we headed to a classroom to have a Q & A session. Our discussion ranged from everyday life in college to deeper discussion about the issues that face our different countries and how we could help each other to solve them. We all came to the conclusion that as future influencers and leaders of our world, we need to learn how to work together to build a better future. After an intense discussion, we decompressed by enjoying lunch together an talking about our everyday lives.
Finally, we said goodbye and loaded up back to Kigali for our last few nights together.
Our bus ride back to Emmaus to eat lunch with the students
Some monkeys checking in!
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