Haiti Life

So in the days since we last met I would like to recap all the activities that have been going on here in PAP!

Pernier is a close-nit community not far from where we live. We attend a wonderful church there, and it is the home to all our Haitian staff. We had the wonderful opportunity to help with a health fair that the church wanted to provide for the people in the community! We were put at the blood sugar testing table. We had a nurse and pre-med student with us so they took care of the poking, and I did the paperwork for each person. Because we are in Haiti there are limited supplies. We only had a handful of the, what you would call “normal” blood sugar testing, and the rest of the time we had to manually stab a finger with a lancet or small razor to draw blood. Sometimes my job turned into hold the person down, and I don’t blame them at all. I would not want a razor coming at me either!

Interns!

The whole group that put on the clinic!

All the interns have left now, and it is just Brittany and I holding the fort the rest of the year. This means I began teaching the tent camp kids on my own a few weeks ago. I’ll be honest, I was a litter nervous at first. I had only been assisting the others for the first part of the time here. To teach the kids we tape up pieces of construction paper to the wall of the bus that already have words on them because we have no other way to show them. 

So it is a little daunting to come up with an entire lesson and then right out everything you would normally write on a board before you even get there (teachers will understand that!). My first day went well, except for the fact we played a game to help them learn and it ended with half my kids face planting in the gravel…..but at least they came back next class. We were actually able to find chalkboard paint and some people volunteered to paint the buses for us! So I now have a wonderful chalkboard on the wall of the bus! This has been a HUGE blessing! Much more effective teaching this way. I LOVE LOVE teaching these kids, and being in the tent camp. They are a little wild with a lot of attitude, but we have fun. And they know I mean business. One class I had about 50 kids on the bus at one time! And if everyone who walked on the bus, stayed on the bus, we would have had at least 75 kids! Such a fun class! I even taught them Rocky Top :) and they loved it!!

Karadeux! My bus in the last one on the right!

My new chalkboard!

The kids at the Children's Home are doing great! Love getting to visit them and love on them during the week. We are also working on their English and learning skills. That has been an interesting task! We threw a birthday party to little Rowen turning 2! The kids loved the cupcakes, and had fun celebrating dear Rowen! Brittany was in a wedding right before Haiti and brought down lots and lots of sunglasses from the reception! We gave the kids some and they thought they were the coolest kids in town! 

While it is turning fall back home in Tennessee, it is staying a constant hot here in Haiti! Hard to believe I have been here over 2 months! Thanks for all your continued prayer and support!

Cheering on our Vols!