We are two weeks into the driest rainy season our area has had for a long time. The roads are quite dusty. The trees and grass along the roads are coated with the reddish brown dust that billows up behind the cars. Right now we should still be having rains every day. Instead, our last rain was two weeks ago. It seems the dry season has arrived a month early.
Yesterday evening Sheila and I went to visit Adrie, Ezekiel’s wife. After someone dies here in Rwanda , there is a week of mourning when the family is home for people to come visit. When we arrived, we chatted for a few minutes then watched the video of the funeral. It started out with pictures of Ezekiel’s life then showed the procession to the church, the funeral, and burial. As we sat there, I couldn’t help but wonder if Adrie and the family had to watch the video with every visitor…and how I wouldn’t want to. I think in the US we would take the video, put it in a bottom drawer, and maybe never watch it again. This family probably has the film memorized from the number of times they had to watch it.