Friday, November 6th, 2009
Today our breakfast was oatmeal-finely grounded and with some yummy spices—bread, cheese, Haitian butter, and grapefruit.
We started our work here at home, at Cambry. For the first time we had an actual clinic and pharmacy to work at….and even a professional dentist chair. Even though we started early, and there was no traveling today, we ran behind in seeing all 220 children. We were supposed to pick up and travel to Les Cayes, to the big church, to set up our clinic there and see the 90 orphans there. However, because we were running behind, Pastor Louis decided to bring the children from Les Cayes to us. The medical team was able to see all of them, however the dental team couldn’t treat most of them—between them being too scared and the sunlight leaving us quickly, we treated about a 30% of the children and mostly treated the housemothers and adults.
During our lunch we were able to walk up to the house and had a chance to shop from some vendors that Pastor Louis invited. Some people bought handmade nativity sets, bracelets, and hand-carved paintings.
At the end of our work day, we packed up everything, said our final goodbyes to the children and walked up to our house. We usually get the power turn back on at around 7 pm, but tonight we didn’t get it until 10 pm. It worked out for the best because it gave us the opportunity to hang out outside, and admire the amazing sky and stars in all their glory…and we even saw the Milky Way! As we stood there, looking up, we could hear all the children praying, and then singing….it was just a beautiful end to our day and week in Haiti.
Mya had prepared us some macaroni and cheese, but later got a pizza, Haitian Style!
We packed and went to bed in the dark…but later got power and therefore AC.
Today our breakfast was oatmeal-finely grounded and with some yummy spices—bread, cheese, Haitian butter, and grapefruit.
We started our work here at home, at Cambry. For the first time we had an actual clinic and pharmacy to work at….and even a professional dentist chair. Even though we started early, and there was no traveling today, we ran behind in seeing all 220 children. We were supposed to pick up and travel to Les Cayes, to the big church, to set up our clinic there and see the 90 orphans there. However, because we were running behind, Pastor Louis decided to bring the children from Les Cayes to us. The medical team was able to see all of them, however the dental team couldn’t treat most of them—between them being too scared and the sunlight leaving us quickly, we treated about a 30% of the children and mostly treated the housemothers and adults.During our lunch we were able to walk up to the house and had a chance to shop from some vendors that Pastor Louis invited. Some people bought handmade nativity sets, bracelets, and hand-carved paintings.
At the end of our work day, we packed up everything, said our final goodbyes to the children and walked up to our house. We usually get the power turn back on at around 7 pm, but tonight we didn’t get it until 10 pm. It worked out for the best because it gave us the opportunity to hang out outside, and admire the amazing sky and stars in all their glory…and we even saw the Milky Way! As we stood there, looking up, we could hear all the children praying, and then singing….it was just a beautiful end to our day and week in Haiti.
Mya had prepared us some macaroni and cheese, but later got a pizza, Haitian Style!
We packed and went to bed in the dark…but later got power and therefore AC.
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