Field Trip to Gahini

This month the school took its first field trip of the school year. We went to visit a hospital in Gahini that specializes in prosthetics for those with weakened or missing limbs and in physical and occupational therapy. Most of the patients that we saw were children, many of whom had cerebral palsy or were recovering from surgery. After having a tour of the facilities and meeting staff and patients, our students gave a mini-concert in which they sang some songs in Kinyarwanda and played instruments. (Barb, one of the parents, has been coming in once a week to teach music. Along with teaching instruments, hand bells, and sight reading music, she has been preparing the kids for this mini-concert in Kinyarwanda. I'm so glad that I have her to take Michelle's place in teaching music.) Afterwards the patients and staff sang and danced for us before we headed over to Vim and Berta's house for lunch on the lawn. Vim is a surgeon and he and Berta (who are from South Africa) and have been at the hospital for many years. All in all, it was a very successful field trip.