Sunday-Tuesday

On Sunday we went to the village of Chambon for church. Service was very short since Pastor Maxeau was not there (he was preaching at another location that day). After church we played soccer and played with bubbles with the kids. Some of the ladies painted the women's fingernails too! Then we loaded up the canter with a bunch of the village kids and headed to the river bed. We played in the "river" for a bit and then headed back to the church to eat lunch. We made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for everyone and had chips and cookies as well. This picture is one of my favorites...after we spend time with the kids from this village church and eat lunch, they always want all the empty water bottles! They will reuse them and fill them from the wells and streams!
After we left there, we headed to Lake Azuei. It's a beautiful brackish lake (water that has more salinity than fresh water, but not more than seawater) that lies in both Haiti and the DR. There are American crocodiles in it, though no one really knows how they got there!

We left Lake Azuei go head to VOL for an afternoon treat - frozen coffee! Mmmm! We got back to the Guest House rather early, got to rest a bit, and I got a lot of reading done!

On Monday we went to Haiti Design Co-op and got to use indigo dye! We got to create our own version of a "tie-dye" placemat and helped dye some shirts/dresses for the shop. We also went to Deux Mains Designs (REBUILD Globally). I included a link to the online store in a previous post, but here is the REBUILD website that tells the full story of how Julie started this company after the earthquake and includes a lot of pictures: http://rebuildglobally.org/ We washed up back at the Guest House and headed to Pizza Amour for dinner...traffic wasn't quite so bad this time...taking us only 15-20 minutes instead of 2 1/2 hours!

On Tuesday we started the day by going over to the Livesay's house for a baptism! After the baptism, we went to the OK and painted/washed walls/cleaned two of the apartments there. We had a traditional Haitian lunch with accra again (my favorite!). We also found some keneps on the trees back by the Women's Education Center. Keneps are small fruits with tough green skins. Inside the skin is a tart/tangy pulp covering a large seed. They are kind of slimy but I love them! The texture reminds me of a gooey eyeball! We decided they were like nature's Candy Warheads.

We also went up to the school in Corail for some of the team members to meet their sponsored children! Heartline has a sponsorship program that supports children in three different school locations: Corail, Cite Soleil, and Chambon.

We came back to the Guest House for dinner and Julie and Sarah (from Rebuild Globally) joined us!