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I still need to post my pictures from Kenya and Slovakia and I have so many stories of my experience in Kenya to tell, but I want to dedicate this post- my first in a while- to something different.

I just finished watching "Hotel Rwanda." I will openly admit that I cried for two hours straight through the entire movie. The feeling that I have inside right now is impossible to describe. This wasn't a made-up Hollywood notion. This really happened. Watch this movie and remember that as you watch it and if you don't cry for two hours straight then you should ask yourself why you didn't.

I want to start by commending this film for showing the whole truth. For forcing us to watch things that we didn't want to see. Things the Western Media never found enough guts to really cover.

800,000 people, including an estimated 300,000 CHILDREN were killed in 100 days. The first day of those 100 days was my 16th birthday. I found that out only tonight when I started researching the Rwanda Genocide after watching the movie. (If you want to know more about what happened you should check out this BBC Article )

How could we have let this happen? This is not some far-off dream, some tale from History Class. This happened in our lifetime...for most of us after we were adults, or at least teenagers, able to do something, to speak out, to beg our governments to do something.

...and we didnt. And we still don't. 180,000 people have died in Sudan in the last year. How many will that number have to hit before someone decides its not acceptable.