I woke up at 8:00AM this morning, drenched in sweat like always, to one of my fellow squad mates tapping my leg to tell me that breakfast was ready!!! This morning for breakfast we had bread and eggs, though the eggs were really spicy today, so I just had bread with peanut butter. After breakfast we had until 10:30 for a little bit of free time, and to get ready for the VBS we were having for the kids of the community at the school yard.
I spent my free time this morning reading through some more of Genesis.
(I just recently made a goal for myself to read the Bible all the way through from beginning to end before the end of the race)
I also took a little cat nap and then got ready for VBS.
Also fun fact: In Haiti, piercings and tattoos are things that are culturally not acceptable for Christians to have, so every time we leave the gates to go out into the community we have to take them out or cover them up, I have my nose pierced so I always have a funny looking band aid on my nose to cover it up.
We had a 5-minute walk to the school yard, where about 50 (CUTE) kids were waiting to play. We played games (and sweat) and hung out for a while and then a couple of the girls on my squad led a bible lesson, and performed a skit, which the kids loved, and then we played some more before we had to leave.
After a little over 2 hours we walked back home and ate some corn meal mush and bean sauce for lunch, and then had a little bit of free time, which I used to take another nap. At 2:00PM we took a 15-minute walk over to Ann’s Children’s Home, which is an orphanage here in Monwi for special needs kids. We had the privilege of meeting and hanging out with all of the kids that live there for about an hour and a half. Which was the highlight of my day.
Then we walked back home and got ready for our first choir practice at the church. We are all getting to sing with the choir during service next Sunday. We learned a new song in English (well some of the girls knew the song already, but it was new to me), and were told that our homework was to learn it in Créole (Créole is the native language in Haiti). After practice, we came back home and had “Haitian spaghetti” for dinner, which is regular spaghetti noodles but instead of spaghetti sauce it’s some kind of red juice with cut up hot dogs in it. Oh and we also had Coca-Cola to drink for dinner!
After dinner I sat down to write this blog, and that basically sums up a day living in Monwi, Haiti.
more fun facts about living in Haiti:
we live in a pink house
there is a BEAUTIFUL beach about a 5-minute walk down the road from the house
the stars here a miraculous
the kids here are 1. so cute and 2. Love to hold hands and walk with you wherever you go
Créole is a really cool language
AND Haiti is AMAZING.
