Smell:
Rain, before the storm comes and after it washes through and leaves everything with the perfumed scent of being washed clean
Charcoal from cooking fires being lit when the day ends and the family begins preparing for their dinner
Taste:
Beer and brochettes at a local bar, a typical fast food meal
Slightly earthy, metallic, and plastic taste of water that comes from the outside tap
Touch:
Fine layer of dust that covers everything during the dry season
Hands that are shaken every time you greet a friend or neighbor
Hearing:
Onatracom buses rumbling down the rocky dirt road beside my house
Birds that wake you at the crack of dawn every morning with their chirruping
Sight:
The expanse of green topped red mountains that define the landscape of Rwanda
Igitenge in wildly colorful designs worn by every woman in the village
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