Tuesday-Written By Luke Gaetano

As the tradition has become,  most of us gathered on the roof at roughly 7am for morning devotionals. We sang "you make everything glorious" by David Crowder and went around the circle, each of us saying a little something in prayer for the day and rest of the week. After the devotionals, we enjoyed breakfast, which, today was scrambled eggs, toast and bananas......a nice switch up from the lucky charms.

After breakfast, we all picked a morning task to work on for the day. Mr Wagner, Allison 2, Clay and Lou distributed 50lb bags of rice to the villagers. Each bag was to be shared by two families who were neighbors. Whenever a man and woman would come to receive the rice, the man would pick it up, and we thought, how chivalrous, as the man then plopped the bag onto the woman's head hahaha..... The families were extremely grateful though and a total of almost two hundred families received rice.

Luke, Darby, Eddy and John were on the child sponsorship program today. They traveled to each classroom in the school, Eddy took attendance, and then they distributed braclets to the children. Two per child. It was humbling to see how these kids were so ecstatic to receive these bracelets, and touching as the all shouted "Mesi!! Thank you!!"

Keith, Deb, Caitlin, Lisa, Regina, Sam, Pastor Pierre, Roland, and Shelly traveled to Paco. The main purpose of the trip was to create a database of the children so that their health could be monitored by future physicians. They also distributed vitamins and took group class photos. They saw that the kids were given a nice meal at the school, but it seemed that this was the only meal they received possibly in a day. The malnutrition seemed a little more prevalent in Paco then La Croix, but the kids were just as happy which is so inspiring.  The children also sang to everyone. The children here were more of the "high five" crowd as Keith discovered when he tried to fist pound the children and they looked at him as if he were a white American....I mean, crazy. 

Deb taught English class today as well. They sang the "hokie pokie" and "Every where I look" and the kids knew all the words in English, which was pretty cool.  They also received a little science lesson where the concept of sound was explored with tuning forks and rubber bands.

Scarf and bracelet making happened later in the day with most of our kids participating in one way or another with these activities.

Soccer has pretty much become a ritual down here as the Haitians are always asking "time to play soccer today?" It's crazy to see these kids play soccer on the rocky, torn up fields with no shoes. Basketball is also a hit among some of the kids while the rest of the kids will watch and play around.

A bell was donated to the La Croix school and Gary, Rob, and Lou helped with digging a hole to fill with concrete to support the pole that will hold the bell. This bell was a nice surprise for the school as they will now be able to alert the students when school is going to begin and end.

Keith, Sam and Gary will cut wood on Wednesday for the desks in the new computer lab. Measuring the room was done today and hopefully by Thursday we will be able to install the desks.

It's about 4:30 right now so the rest if the day will include dinner at 5ish or so and then shower time. Followed by night time devotionals on the roof where everyone talks about the best, or favorite part of the day, sings, and prays.

Time is flying down here.