…carrying 100 pound bags of cement
…eating mangoes straight off the tree
…drinking coconut milk straight off the tree
…eating fresh coconut off the tree (yum)
…swimming to an island
…living in my tent all month
…flat tires, and lots of them
…laundry by hand
…incredible praise and worship where we sing it out in English while our Haitian brothers and sisters sing it out in Creole (such a beautiful sound!)
…living in community with 45 other people
…the beach as my backyard
…too many dogs
…breakfast at 630 every morning
…learning some Creole
…lots of vulnerable and transparent conversations
…walking through trash everywhere
…brushing up on my first-aid skills
…seriously considering getting dreads
…lots of rice and beans
…finding and holding several starfish
…getting proposed to by one of the guys on the construction site (2 for 2 on countries now!)
…falling asleep every night to the sound of crashing ocean waves
…a friend getting hit on the head by a falling mango
…pouring buckets of concrete until 1030PM
…700ish fire ants invading my tent
…time to read
…cold bottles of Coke from my favorite Haitian
…my tent flooding horribly and soaking everything inside
…sleeping in a hammock next to the ocean
…lots of mosquitos
…new friends
…the Lord stretching me and teaching me things I wasn't expecting and in ways I wasn't expecting
…seeing Haitians more and more through the eyes of Christ
