Success!

The lesson went great.  I was hoping to get some criticism so that I can improve for when we do the same lesson somewhere else another time, but no one could think of any way that it would have gone better!  I just love the kids at FPCH.  I might have to steal some of them if they don't have any parents.  Words are boring, so let me show you some pictures of how it all went down.

(I fixed the pictures and rotated them, but for some reason it didn't save correctly.)

Angelikah making her sunshine.

 Mirlande working.

 Walambre (sp?)

 mikaella and me with our craft =]

 group picture with the kids at fpch

adorable.


More pictures to be posted to facebook soon, if you would like to see the details of the craft stuff.  =]

partying partying yeah

Bon jou, faithful readers.  Bon jou is the morning greeting here, and when we walk through village Theodat saying bonjou or bonjour to everyone, I forreal feel like I am in Beauty and the Beast.  I hope you know what I mean.
Also, I wrote this yesterday, so everything that says tomorrow is today.  We didn't have electricity all night last night.

Ali is leaving World Wide Village, so we are having a going away party tomorrow night.  I'm going to do my best to make cupcakes with the close enough ingredients that I found at the grocery store.  Hahaha.

Many people who come here, especially on one week trips, are broken-hearted when they see the poverty.  Truly, it should be something that moves us with compassion and motivate each of us to do everything we can to help the poor.  It doesn't make me sad to see Haiti though.  Am I a calloused, heartless individual?  I sure hope not.  To me, it's a triumph of the human spirit.  The people here make it work with so much less than you would ever think a person "needs."  Hundreds of thousands of people live in tents.  When I say a tent, you are imaging the kind of tent an american would go camping with, right?  Those are pretty nice, aren't they?  The tents that people live in here are more like a tarp or some pieces of tin held up by sticks.  Can you imagine living in that?  I can't.  When we visit the kids, their circumstances are dismal - distended bellies, disease, dirt, etc.  Yet, I am only happy to see the kids because I love them, and I am just glad that they have enough to survive!  People are inspiring.  Can you fit 100 people on a bus? Yes.  Can you carry 4 giant packs of cement on a moto?  Yes.  Can you drive the Ranger through a river?  Yes.  You can do anything because this is Ayiti.

Anyway, tomorrow we are doing our first bible school lesson.  I am not really ready yet, but I should have a few hours to work on it tomorrow.  We're going to talk about faith and use the metaphor that trusting God and believing in Him is like believing the sun will come up tomorrow.  And we are going to make suns for the craft!  I'm excited.  I feel like my two years at Asbury were all preparing me for this - to be in charge, be a leader, teach about Jesus, love these kids with all of my heart.  We are going to FPCH with this lesson tomorrow and Tree of Life on Thursday with the same lesson.  I feel like there hasn't been as much guidance as I anticipated, but it's okay.  One way to become a better leader is by necessity!  I'm getting thrown right in there, and I'm going to do my best.

We have a new intern who is fluent in Creole.  SUPER WIN!  Excited!

I bought some milano cookies today for $4 US.  WORTH IT.  Yummmm.

Here's a little prayer and praise if you'd like to be praying for me.

Prayer - bible lesson tomorrow

Devo's for interns

Leadership transition-y stuff (Just pray for all of the staff and the interns!)

Chicken Pox kids at FPCH

Praise - Got to talk to Kristen today (one of my Asbury BFFs)

So many opportunities

Sweet kids

Functioning cars and the second gate

New intern

Shannon and Lena are here (Brad's wife and kid)

Sunshine (but no sunburn)

Bacon for breakfast

Safe water

Fans that usually work

Cozy bed (though not quite as cozy as my asbury bed!)

4 days without blogging?!?!

I'm not sure I can ever remember all that's happened in the last four days.  Not much!  There has been a lot of me on my computer working on this or that.  I'm having a few frustrations about things not working out how I wanted, but I'm always going to make the most of it!  As for normal Haitian setbacks, those don't frustrate me at all!  We had no internet for a couple days.  The gate into our community has been flooded for months and months, and it's been getting worse and worse to get through without falling into the car-catchers.  The water is super nasty brown with who knows what in it.  The boys had to walk through it the other day.  GOOD NEWS THOUGH!  We found another gate!!!!! WIN!!!!  Just in time because our main gate is impossible to pass now.  The whole bridge is collapsed.  The government may or may not be working on fixing it - lol.

A couple days ago, Ali and I had the idea of homemade ice cream!  It was delicious!  I'm definitely going to have to do that again while I'm here.  We also watch POTC 3!!  Good times.

We went to FPCH yesterday, and I fell even more in live with a kids.  I did a lot of playing and tickling (which unfortunately led to the kids tickling me as a mob).  We brought them cookies, and it was probably like the first time they had ever had them ever. We also brought juice.  The said "Thank you Jesus" when they saw what we had brought.  Also, isn't it funny that they know how to say, "give me candy, please" in english?  Funny and also a little sad.  The kids told me I was beautiful.  They're the beautiful ones, in my opinion.  I'm definitely going to have to get a lot more pictures with the kids before this summer is over!  Especially Mikayla, Francesca, Angelica, etc.  I just want to know all of their names!  There are like 50 at FPCH at 19 at Tree of Life.  I love those kids.  How will I ever leave this country?

Today we had Sunday Funday, in spite of the hour or so delay in getting back to the house after church.  We went to the Caribbean Lodge, and I ate good fried chicken and fries.  I know it's a nice restaurant, but I am ever aware of the possibility of getting sick off of the food here.  A lot of expats eat there though, so I'm assuming it's relatively safe.  We went swimming.  The swimming pools here are so hot!  It's like swimming in the bath!

LOVE YOU ALL!

Please comment because I love it.  =]  Also, tell me what you'd like to know about Haiti.  I'd love to answer any questions you might have.