Life on the road

by Sandrine Umwali (Rwanda)

I didn't expect to find Rwanda

Am wondering how to start my story! My travel story is road trip and I didn’t expect to find my self 01:30am try to write travel story without even flying for once in my life. Yes most of people think to travel is only flying in plane about miles away from home but I hope my story will change yourway of thinking. About 5years ago, after finishing high school the only wish I had was a vacation in my head as all normal young girls, my Dad took us me and my sister to Uganda it’s only 12hours but us it took us 4days to reach kampala. We traveled to Kampala in track because my dad has one and he always travel in track and we’re curious to travel with him, yes it was long journey without a lot of money we only bought a big milk and some donuts that was our lunch and diner for those days. And slept in track because we couldn’t afford the lodges, finally we reached in Uganda and find out how amazing it is . I didn’t expect to find myself loving and enjoying my travel after long journey but yes it kept a big and memorable memories in my life,not only it made me love traveling but made me realize how my Dad was suffering just for our sake, driving a track all day and night&fixing it when is not working and after all making sure that we’re enjoying our journey we were singing all the road and stop try to explain to us everything that we can forget that we spent 4 days. Road trip is cheapest trip but is the enjoyable trip. After 3years ago the small girl with big dreams and ambitions decide to travel again it was a road trip also but not long it was only 3hours from city to EASTERN province. I didn’t expect to find an amazing and attractive places in my country, as African youth you only wish to travel around the world Europe,Asia, end so on. It was so early in morning around 8:30am went in bus station we took a bus went for road trip I was with my friends group of 30people ,all way we were singing and we had a guide we stopped at any memorial site to tell us about it , I remember we stopped at the famous place in Eastern called nyirangarama known for beef brochettes we bought some and ate them on the road.i got a chance to see the volcanoes I knew them only in history while I was at school but I saw them, and we found the cycling then we stopped and watch the cycling because you can not drive when they’re cycling bdw cycling is the most famous game in my country, so after 20 minutes of stop we continued till we reached to the hotel Serena Oohhh the amazing moment after check in I run to the beach it was late because we had a lot of stops we reached quite late, and guess what, night +water +moon= peace that what I was running for to stand at beach try to smell and hear the sound of water and look in the sky, yes I saw and sit at beach and try to through the stones in water (my favorite thing to do and I recommend you to do so throughing the strone in water is the best, and the next day we went to the market and shop some handcrafted products I got a chance to love my country and know more about it and meet new people and now traveling is one of my hobbies . I didn’t expect to find this scholarship and also I wasn’t expecting to get it but yes I want to explore other places and see what do bless them with. This is my first story I hope it can motive others to appreciate a little they have and fight for the big and enjoy the results. The end of the story I will tell you in Caribbean. Thank you