Hey Everyone...
The afternoon began with attending
the souvenir market in the town square.
The market can be quite a site, as it involves about 50 different women
peddling their wares (jewelry, art work, clothing, book marks, writing cards, metal
works, wood carvings, machetes, etc.) and all
just for us. However, I must write
that the 5:1 ratio (ummm...5 community women to each team member) and that almost
everything each woman had for sale was similar to what every other woman had
for sale and that the Haitians love to negotiate and that each woman knew that each
of us brought money just for this event did create a situation that was a
little intimidating. Based on what I
saw, though, it seems that the whole team rose to the occasion and had a lot of
fun despite the discomfort we might have felt.
After the market, we deviated from
the schedule and, instead of heading to Kris
El Espwa, went to Pastor Isaac's church, The Church of God, to play with about 40 children. Our time with the children began with
teaching them Connie's Christianized version of The Hokey Pokey. After that,
we headed out to a very muddy construction site (the site for the church's new church
building [they're meeting in a tent now]) to play soccer, throw the football,
toss the frisbee, jump rope, paint nails, blow bubbles, etc. We all had a lot of fun with the kids and didn't
seem to mind at all getting really dirty. :o)
After dinner tonight, the Bohoc
Leadership Council came out to the guest house to share the evening with us. I'm not going to write about that tonight,
though; please look for a summary of that in the next day or so...
Goodnight,
Dave
On behalf of Team Haiti 2012/April
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