Tim Hartigan, Ph.D.

Language & Learning

One of the things that isn’t lost on me is how beautiful Rwanda is, especially my little part in the Kabarore valley. Today I went to Kabarore Vision School, which is about ten steps from our school, to watch my 11th graders to do some student teaching (more on that later). Here is a picture of the school’s Rwandan flag, which has a larger band of blue with the Sun on it, along with two smaller bands of yellow and green. Quite an attractive flag! The school overlooks a really green valley, perhaps enhanced with all of the rain we’ve been getting. While at the school, I saw a pair of eagles rising on updrafts. Later in the day, I changed the words from “This Land is Your Land” to fit Rwanda. The students enjoyed singing “From the Virunga Mountains to the Great Rift Valley, From Akegera to Lake Kivu.”