Welcome from Haiti! We miss and appreciate you all. Today we saw desperation, laughter,and hope. And we saw some of that in the Haitians too - ha ha. We went to De'geance School, up in the mountains. It's a beautiful setting - you can see the ocean in the distance. We are a novelty there - some of the children even seemed a little afraid of us. Gale, Tom, Shelby, and Tracy passed out Operation Priceless packets to the kids. Today there were 285 kids in school and guess how many packets we had? You got it - 285 exactly! Believe me - it's not like you can pass the packets out to part of a class - it would cause great upset. Darren, Scott, Shelby,Tracy, and Pam did their abstinence and women's hygiene classes at the school. The rest of us worked on distributing packets and taking photos. Tom managed to fall asleep on the great tree in the school courtyard.
We trekked back down the mountain which was much easier because we had distributed about 200 pounds of hygiene and school packets, and also it was, well, downhill. We returned to MPCA where we presented more classes and took more photos. A highlight was when the nursing students sang a song of thanks to Scott and and the others who had lead discussions.
At our devotion time watching the sun set over the ocean Pam expressed her optimisim for Haiti that those eager nursing students represent. Then Lindsay expressed her fear (via a shriek) that a rat was climbing around overhead. Another day of hope, sweat, and joy in Haiti - Blessings!
