Silly Faces of Rwanda 2014

Catch up on Part 1 of our Rwanda trip here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 6 here Part 7 here, Part 8 here, Part 9 here, Part 10 here 

And you just thought I had finished my Rwanda recaps! I completely forgot that I planned on sharing some of the silly faces we saw while in Rwanda.

Now, before I start, I want to be clear that I’m in no way poking fun at the children in Rwanda. If you can’t tell by now, my heart longs to be with these children every single day and I love them so incredibly much, silly faces and all. As I look through these pictures, they fill my heart and put a smile on my face.

Maybe they’ll do the same for you.

You will notice that many of the children have a very serious look on their face. And by serious I mean evil.

I mean the kids aren’t evil or anything but until they warmed up to us or we finally learned “seca seca” {which means giggle or smile} we got some seriously mean-muggin’ shots.

Then once they got warmed up to us, they got REAL warm! Had to fight them from getting up in the camera lens.

Those brows, y’all. He had this expression on his face every time we saw him.

Same with him. I’m not sure we got one picture of him smiling.

But I wouldn’t have it any other way, ’cause that is one seriously cute serious face.

On the other hand, Mr. Cool stepped right up and posed for his picture.

Patrick was not very fond of us, at least at first. He eventually warmed up like his classmates!

Nope. Not gonna happen.

Holy smokes! That’s definitely the meanest lookin’ mug we got!

If I remember correctly, Gaudence was behind me trying to get this boy to smile and was probably acting crazy with her hands on her hips. And this is what I got. Well if I can’t get them to do “sweet” then I guess I’ll take “swag”.

Eyeing Jarrod and praying he doesn’t come near him acting all crazy!

Now this guy had it going on in every single picture. It’s like he made up his mind to make an awesome face every time the camera was out.

You talkin’ to me?

And his pants {which were actually shorts for an bigger child} were too big and he had to stand like this just to keep them up.

Hi. 

What you lookin’ at? 

Done. Just…done.

It was only a matter of time before a bunch of kids went from wholly unfamiliar with a camera to making crazy faces into one!

Check out the boy behind Jarrod in the striped shirt. His eyes are so big!

Don’t even think of taking her passion fruit. She’ll cut you!

Breakin’ it down. In the middle of the road.

These kids came up to the window while we were on the side of the road while Cory was being chastised by a police officer. We thought they were being friendly. They were probably making fun of us for getting pulled over.

Muzungus are scaaaaary.

Still not sure about hanging out with us.

This is Paul.

Paul is cool.

Ice cold.

Silly face for anybody else…normal face from the hubs.

Stuck in the mud, in the middle of the National Forest, sinking like quicksand, mud on our face, pulling ourselves off the ground, and saving my camera from the mud, while the guys were pushing the car out of the mud.

It was a rough few minutes.

All three of ’em. They all make me giggle.

Cory is normally pretty patient with people. That patience was stretched about as thin as it goes with the lady in the airport on our way out, when we were already running late. That guy in the background looks like he was watching everything go down to see what he’d do!

Okay…I think I’ve officially shared everything about our trip to Rwanda but I just couldn’t leave out all these sweet, silly faces!

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