I made it!

I'm here!
After a long day of traveling (about 27 hours total), I finally made it in to Kigali on Monday night. Almost all my bags made it too, and I just picked up the lost one from the airport today, so now I have all my stuff.
So far, Rwanda has been nothing short of wonderful. Although things do get overwhelming at times, I truly feel at peace being here and can really see that this is exactly where God wants me.
Monday night I flew in with a few of the other new teachers, it was such a blessing to connect with them in the airport. We were picked up at the airport by Trevor (our Headmaster), and Kerry and Douglas Bryan (For those who don't know, Kerry is one of my best friends from Alma College and teaches 1st grade at KICS right next door to my classroom :) ). As soon as we came through baggage claim, they were there to greet us with hugs and ice cream! What a great welcome to Rwanda. :)
We then went to our new house. I am living in a house that is literally a 2 minute walk from the school. I live with two other girls who are also new teachers at the school; Jodi who teaches high school math and Katharina who is our school librarian. We are all really enjoying our new home and finding it adventurous to discover the little "quirks" about our house. For example, when you want to take a shower upstairs, you must, an hour ahead of time, plug in the hot water heater. Also, right before you shower you have to flip a switch downstairs to turn on the water pressure. Just something that is going to be different, but we're thankful for the hot water and the pressure!
This week we have been doing orientation at school. This has been incredibly helpful for our transition in to this year of living in Africa. Today we all shared our stories of how we found KICS and came to Rwanda. It was so neat to hear how God worked in everyone's lives through different situations and brought us all here. God works in some crazy ways!

Well I am currently at school using the internet and sitting in my very own Kindergarten classroom- SO exciting! I have not finished setting it up, but I promise when I'm done I will take and post pictures. :)