After five days
we are finally adjusting to the schedule and time change. The morning was
pretty similar to the past couple of days— we started off with a lecture by Hollie covering the global context leading up to 1994. We briefly discussed the
rise of states, globalization and how they affected the international world
order.
Today was far
less emotionally taxing than yesterday. After lunch we took a bus to the Presidential
Palace which is out by the airport. This is where the airplane carrying President Habyarimana and the president of
Burundi was shot down on April 6, 1994. The actual house where the Rwandan president used to
live was turned into a unique art museum, where we saw art depicting both the
genocide and national recovery process. Many pieces emphasized the importance
of hope, unity and development. After a guided tour of the house, we went outside to see the
plane wreckage which landed in the former garden. It wasn't until a few years back that a wall was built around the wreck, and you can see some vandalism on the plane wing. Hollie filled us in with some
details about the late president’s life, like what they used specific rooms for. 
