Week 1 complete

It has been 1 week since arriving here in Haiti. From Monday through Friday, we have been working on building a school. Unfortunately, there hasn’t really been too much for us to do as a corporate group. Most of our time has been spent playing with the children in the afternoon and during the break time at school. We’ve come up with a favorite game that is played everyday at the school. I call it, “Run and Catch”. It’s very similar to sharks and minnows. The kids would line up on one side and 4-5 of us students would be in the middle. After the count of 3, all the kids would run across to the other side, trying to avoid being caught by one of us. Since the kids didn’t get the concept of being tagged and sent to “jail”, we would literally have to capture them and carry them over to the out of bounds area. The kids loved the game and it gave us a good workout.
In the afternoons, we played a lot of soccer and sat in small groups talking with the community kids. A few of them spoke a little English and would teach us Creole. We shared stories, listened to music, and just chatted about anything and everything, from what we could understand because of the language barrier.
The biggest hit of this week has been the team’s health. Lesley became very sick on Wednesday and had to rest in bed all day. Chantel also got some sort of stomach virus and wasn’t able to keep any food down for a couple days. A few others experienced episodes of nausea, probably due to the new foods we are experiencing. Over all though, we are pushing through. God is gracious and is granting us with the strength we need to keep going.