Tuesday, June 29th--Day 7

Plans for today:

This is our last full day here! This leaves us feeling, like everything here, many different emotions and thoughts.

We will spend the morning handing our Love Bundles and feeding the children.

Then, take a trip to a local beach, hang out, relax, and have a meal at a beach restaurant.

We like this plan!

The morning had its usual unplanned waiting period--Don decided to meet with some of the teachers right before class to do some salary negotiations. So, we hung out with the kids--taking pictures, singing songs, and playing games.

We feel more like a big family now--we are much more comfortable being here.

We are also already feeling the ache of how we will miss these wonderful children.

A typical Haitian experience--joy mixed with sadness...

Since we've handed out Love Bundles and fed the local children several times by now, we are well-practiced and able to do it without a hitch. We are so good!!

Each day has gotten hotter and hotter here, and it only takes minutes now before we begin sweating and become easily tired.

How can these people do this all the time, day after day, week after week??

It's amazing.

After lunch we head to the beach. What a great time!

It felt strange, though--at times it felt like we had been in Haiti for such a short time...at others if felt like we'd been there forever!!

It's surprising how quickly we are removed from the terrible conditions most Haitians live in, and are surrounded by beautiful ocean and mountains.

We had a great experience at the restaurant--one of us had ordered lemonade, and it seemed like the waiter wasn't paying attention, because he never brought it to the table. After about 15 minutes, he finally brought it to us. At first we were a bit annoyed at his seemingly uncaring attitude--until we found out it took so long because they had to go out, by lemons, and make the lemonade by hand!!

What a typical Haitian thing to do...!!