I’m several days behind on important news forecasting from exciting Haiti. It all began with not sleeping for a few days which all but sent me over the edge. I was close to my breaking point. Then I was having computer issues and wrote numerous posts that I couldn’t publish or I would lose or just wouldn’t cooperate and go with the program. Finally, last night I got some sleep. I woke up when I got bit by a mosquito between the eyes. The mosquitos are bad here, but what else would you? I’m thankful for my anti-malaria meds because the stuff these bugs land on gives me the hee be gee bees.
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| Before |
The last few days we’ve been working at the orphanage cleaning up and painting. It’s finally looking pretty good. If we just keep the kids from touching the walls, sanding the walls, scraping the walls, they’d look much better. It’s so much better than the old pea-green and mold color it was before. It’s been in the 90’s but actually, it’s not too bad inside mostly because we are surrounded by concrete. We’ve put in full days of hard work and it’s starting to show. We gave Chedner some money to get the kids some “nice” clothes for church. I actually hope we can finish up tomorrow. My limbs can’t take any more painting. The paint here is crap, to say the least but we don’t have many other choices.
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| Front entry in progress |
The plans we had for the week slowly keep changing because stuff comes up but I think we’ll make due. We’ve been getting up around 6-6:30 every morning and are ready to work by 8am. It’s about a mile walk to get to the orphanage and during the afternoon it’s quite toasty out when we walk back for lunch.
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In progress painting
I haven’t seen any dead people this trip thankfully but supposedly there was a dog that didn’t get out of a car/trucks way in time. I didn’t even want to look at it. I told Jamie and Susan I like animals more than people. Mostly because they don’t lip back to you and love you no matter what.
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| Front entry nearing completion |
I’m hoping the power will eventually come on so I can try sending this out tonight otherwise it will be yet another failed attempt. There’s also some pictures of the last few days.
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| The little kid's bedroom |
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| The boy's bedroom before |
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| This is one of the in-progress pics |
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| Child Labor at it's finest
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