A Beautiful Sunday!
Hello Everyone,
Thanks for checking out my blog! Today was a full day that started off with an early morning walk by myself down the hills to town. The roads are impressively steep! People were out, on their way to church and the sun had begun to get warm.
And fresh orange juice and fruit for breakfast!!! We made our way from our gorgeous place that we are staying to the orphanage where we helped the nuns feed the babies and played with the young ones. They were all so excited to see us. The site, of all these children was pretty shocking. I would like to go back and spend some more time there, just to give them some attention means a lot. The nuns have their hands full with all the children and babies in cribs that fill the whole room. Just changing diapers and cleaning up spit up seems to have them running around non stop.
We walked from the orphanage to town to fetch some supplies at the market. The chicken feet were tempting, but I decided to bargain for the papaya instead. A lot of flour, rice, beans, bananas.
The sun was really hot, it must have been in the 90's today. Luckily the group put on a gracious supply of sunscreen and a stop for a glass of coke got us all on track to continue our walk.
We took a bumpy trip to the beach in the afternoon. Great waves!! It was so fun and really warm.
Tomorrow we begin our work. We are meeting with the Haitian Health Foundation in the morning and then heading out to a village an hours drive away to give our anemia presentation and do screening for anemia, blood pressure, tetanus shots to the 200+ girls who are coming.
So far So great. I hope you are all well and I hope to get a chance to write again soon!
Chao,
em