Road to Rwand----Wildlife

 We have spectacular birds here.  As I walked home yesterday, there were two green parakeets at my feet, not a foot away, eating beside the road side.  There is an irridescent large ibis who feeds on our common green space at school.  A few days ago as we stood outside in a circle for morning devotions. there was a brilliant red bird with a black stripe on his wings matching the red flowers on the tree he was crawling around in. Every morning we wake up to the screeching of what we assumed were crows.  It sounded  like crows. But we finally saw them flying and squawking.  They are medium sized, long billed, long necked ibis, flying over head. This particular pair has a nest we can observe high in the tree as we wait for our ride in the morning.  

But we also have other wildlife, not that we have necessarily seen them yet.  Of course, there are the mountain gorillas, which bring thousands of visitors per year ( maybe per month) to our town.  But there is more.  As we were reading "A Long Walk to Water", a story about the Lost Boys of Sudan, in grade 7, it mentions the boys being pursued by lions.  On a whim I asked, "Have you ever seen a lion?"  The entire class shook their head "yes".  One boy clarified, "I was not that close, but I saw them."  They did not mean the zoo either.  What a different world.