Top Ten Reasons We Love Haiti
We thought we were getting lemonade, but when the delectible taste hit your tongue, you realize it was not of lemon, but of the delicious grapefruit they have here…and it was made into juice. Amazing!
9. 3+ hour services
Singing, testimonies, singing, testimonies, singing, offering, singing, preaching, singing, singing—
8. 5 AM wake up call
Will today be the choir that practices at the butt-crack of dawn, or will it be the Haitian women in your room who decide they want to have a lagit conversation that early in the morning for at least an hour??
7. 3 deep and still going
Sleeping arrangements wouldn’t be complete without having at least 3 people per bed, and if you are Cathy, that means you have two Haitian women sleeping with you. For about 3 nights, we would increase the number of women we had sleeping in this one room by 2.
6. Bread, Bread, Bread
Breakfast, lunch, dinner…snack?…only a snack if you snagged some to eat for later. I don’t know if it is the tight budget we are on or the cultural norm, but we eat bread ALL the time!
5. Water
You know the water is bad when locals won’t even drink it…and Matt took a plunge on accident and drank some of the water. He wasn’t feeling too hott for a few days.
4. Fecal Dust
It’s our 8th team member, always present in the dry season
3. 4 minute pee
Big tin bucket and a Haitian women needed to releave herself at 3:30AM–longest, loudest pee EVER
2. Bus/transpertation
The bus ride to Haiti was intense. You literally thought it could be your last. And transportation is always an issue when the road are practially non-existant.
1. Man Up
God has moved in our lives, and team indelible has decided to change our name. We have also been ordanied new names for each of us. Our new name is Stick-it-to-the-MAN.
And Introducing….(drum roll, please)…
Matthew Man-Boy Willams: No longer a boy, not yet a man
Robyn Rob-Man-Bobish Bailey: long story, we just like the name
Kim kill-da-Man Hillebrand: you figure it out (actually it’s Hill-Da-Man, cause she’s the man!)
Cathy Man-Hands Zelvis: she was going to be Mrs. Man-Who, but wasn’t feelin it, so her sister deemed her with this name
Noah Man-Who Zelvis: if you could see Noah with a pony tail on top of his head, you would think he was a part of a Dr. Seuss book
Anna Man-Face Barnes: Matt took a picture of Anna, and she looks like a man, so we have been calling her man face for a while now 🙂 (check it out on facebook!)
Ashli MhANna Hanna: I wear men’s deoderant, sweat like a man and am not shaving my legs for the entire time we are in Haiti due to a bet…hence, I am a man.
Feel free to call each by their middle name….we do 🙂
