Day 3

We've all been able to try a variety of food.  The food at the ministry center has been very good. As we moved on to the work site and the motel in Leogane, more unusual food and more familiar food was enjoyed. 

Before we left the ministry center on Monday morning, our first breakfast was at 5:30 am.  Our second breakfast, after we arrived at the construction site at 10:30, was spaghetti with ketchup and mayonnaise and one hotdog.

First night at the resort, our choice of meat by majority vote was....goat.  We also had spicy noodles, rice and beans and fried plantains.

Our afternoon snack....sugarcane....yum!

A typical work site meal of beef stew (with bones), beans and rice.

Dinner on Tuesday night was easily recognizable- barbeque chicken and french fries. What? No rice and beans?

The kids loved to play soccer.  They were very competitive and very good.  The white kids lost.

They knew better than us how to jump rope.

The UNICEF tent in the background actually is the temporary classroom for about 20 students. Go, Jane, Go.  5 buckets of sand per concrete batch going into the cement mixer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At the end of the day on Wednesday, all the exterior walls had 6 courses of blocks laid and the interior walls to divide the classrooms had been started.

Filling the block holes and joints with concrete.

"Did you reapply your sunscreen after lunch?"  "Have you been drinking enough water?"
"Your neck is red, did you put sunscreen on it?"  Did you like the rice and beans at lunch?"
"Time for a break in the shade."  "Did you see where my trowel went?"
"Noe, does this look right?"  "Goot!"
"What is your name?" "Hey you."

The team is now separated for a few days.  Jane, Karmen, Lindsay, Cari, Kevin W. and Pastor Doug left Leogane this afternoon and are back at the Ministry Center. We plan to spend some time at Sous Espwa offices Thursday morning and then with Kati in the afternoon.  The rest of the group has stayed in Leogane to work at the site on Thursday and Friday morning.  We will be back together as a team on Friday afternoon.
We know that so many of you back home are praying for us. There is no illness or injury so far. Thank you for praying for us and please know that we are thinking of you and praying for you, too.