Language of Kinyarwanda

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Sight

October 5, 2009
Emmanuel has arrived from Ghana at 10:00 a.m. He looked kind of nervous when he first came in through the door, but once we chatted, and taught each other the other’s languages, I could tell we were already becoming a family. Once he had packed everything in our spare room upstairs, we both headed of to the Granada Theatre. He said he had never seen a play before, and I knew I hd to show him one, that he would think it is amazing. When we got there he froze up like a frozen statue. That is something I will never forget. We went to go see, the play, Nutcracker. While we were watching the play I looked over to where Emmanuel was sitting, and just by looking at his face I could tell this looked like magic to him.

Sound

October 6, 2009
Emmanuel woke up at around 6:00 a.m. He also then woke me up, and we decided to head down to the beach, so we could see the sun rise up. So we headed of to Santa Claus beach. I will never forget how he had said, “I want to go to Santa Claus beach, because we might see Santa there.” My mom dropped us off at about 6:30, and we headed down to the beach. Suddenly Emmanuel stopped and said, “What is that crashing noise? At that moment I realized, he had never heard an ocean before. Then I replied, “That is the ocean.”

Taste

October 7, 2009
Again Emmanuel woke up at 6:00 a.m., and again woke me up too. I wasn’t mad, but I did wish he would sleep in more. We played some board games until my mom woke up. I even taught him how to play Jin Rummy. When my mom woke up we were both in the middle of watching some tv. Mom made breakfast, and was a breakfast I will never forget. Mom had made some pancakes, hash browns, eggs, bacon, toasts, and even a yogurt befai. The first thing Emmanuel did was say, “Do you always eat this much?!”

Smell

October 8, 2009
Emmanul and I woke up at 6:00; and I was getting use to it, we had leftovers from last breakfast, played a game of Jin Rummy, woke up my mom ad sister, then left for the pier. When driving Emmanuel wouldn't say much. He would just stare out the window, and have a thinking expression on his face. Whn we arrived it was cold, but we had fun anyways. The first thing we did was look at the dolphin fountain. Mom handed us each a penny, and we all made a wish. Them we went to the Ty Warner's Sea Center. We spent about 3 hours in there. I got kind of bored, but Emmanuel was loving it, so we stayed for as long as he wanted. It was about lunch time when we finishd in the sea center, so we went to Moby Dick. Aftr lunch, we headed down to the end of the pier. When we got there it smelled of dead fish. He said he was use to this smell, but not as strong as it was on the pier. he sai he liked the pier, just didn't like the strong smell of dead fish.

Touch

October 9, 2009
Today I got 30 more minutes of sleep. WE had oatmeal and yogurt for breakfast. All of us played Go Fish, since it was the only game Sara(little sister) could play. In the end I won, but Emmanuel's was very close. We din't know what to do that day. It was very cold, so we didn' want to go outside. We sort of chilled at home, ad ate. Suddenly the living room lights went out. y mom got another light bulb from the cabinet, and tried to reach the light's lamp, but she couldn't reach. Emmanuel offered to put it in. " How do you do it?" Mom explaind, and handed over the light bulb. When Emmanuel felt the bulb, he just stood there staring and feeling. I remember standing there for about 30 minutes, until finally he moved, and put the bulb back in.

Introducing a person

October, 10, 2009
Emmanuel woke up at the same time as usual, and of couse then woke me up. We played his favotite board game Candyland, and we played another round of Jin Rummy. We had a very special breakfast cooked by Emmanul himself. I wouldn't say it was the best, but it was ok. We then went to a place thats very special to me, Santa Barbara Middle School. I remember wanting to show Emmanuelall of my teachers. I knew I had to introduce the people who made Emmanuels visit possible, and so I introduced all of my teachers. I introduced John the last.

Emmanuel's lesson

October 11, 2009
Today was the last day of Emmanuel's visit. I wanted to cry, but I held it in. He was so much like family, it felt like a family member was moving away for a long time. It felt horrible. I knew a lesson woul always stick with me though. A lesson that only he could teach me(well only he could teach me in my family). You are never to old or to young to get up at 6:00 a.m. in the morning. I am going to remember this all my life. I never thought I could do it, but I can. Thak to Emmanuel!