Haiti: Another Day at the Compound

 Okay, when I did that last post, I forgot that there were more pictures of us working! Haha, this was Thursday, our second to last day in Haiti, I cleaned pipes, pulled weeds, and washed tables!

The seventh full day of being in Haiti!

 Sarah and Brianna look a little tired getting out supplies :)

 Sarah was cleaning the pipes and gluing them in the new children's home

 Clean, glue, move the ladder  *repeat*

 There was also a group painting the bathrooms

 Sadie, Nicole, Abbey, and Hannah

 Taking a break

We also went to the "market" that afternoon. Lifeline would invite some trusted people to come and sell their items to us! You could try and bargain with them, but I'm not really the type to bargain :), though I know others in the group got some really good deals by bargaining. I really regret not bringing my camera to capture all the people with their items laid out.

 Here's some of the stuff Hannah and I got. Once I got home, my dad helped me make a frame for the painting so we could staple it on and now it's like a canvas painting!

 Sadie with her mask :)

 Day number eight!

 We acted out Noah's ark for a new program that Lifeline had recently started. Here's Abby with her leaf (she was the dove).

 These are the kids, running to find a seat :) We left after we did our skit and listened to some of their songs and listen (of which we could not understand)  :).

 Once we got back, we cleaned the patio and kitchen chairs and tables.

 We set them out to dry in the sun and they were pretty dry within fifteen minutes!

 Hosing down the tables

 Abby, Hannah, Hannah, Abbey

(Haha, the name doubles within our group! Well, there were also two Matt's, two Nicole's, two Nathan's and two Maddie's!)

(PS. I don't even know what Hannah is doing :))

-Emma :D

Haiti: Working Around the Compound

     While we were in Haiti, we weren't always out and about the community, a couple of days some groups would stay behind and help get odd jobs done around the compound while others went out and did home visits or layettes. Some of the things everyone did included: painting railings, the new children's home, the gate, and wooden boards, digging a trench to re-route some pipe line, cleaning pipes and adding support to the pipes in the children's home, raking leaves, pulling weeds, washing tables, and I'm sure there was more!

Day 6 in Haiti!

Abby and I helped Carol add a second layer of blue to these boards

This is called: rubbing gasoline on yourself to get the paint off. It worked, but we smelled so nice after getting the paint off ;)

Yay, pretty blue boards!

     Oh, and here was a toddler nutrition program that was going on that day, we would get some food and go off and pray with the person that they called up and give them the food. 

     Also, I didn't get pictures, but after we did layettes, we had a group of six go into a little depo (it was probably the size of whatever room you're sitting in right now :) ) and the Haitians would come in and we would find them two shirts and two pairs of pants and then send them to the shoe depo. It was a bit hard finding the right pant size, you would wrap the waist band around their neck and if it went all the way around, it would fit them, but as I did it I felt like I was choking a guy! And I never found some pants that went all the way around his neck... so I feel really bad if they were too small! But the people were so chill and accepting of whatever we gave them (though we had a couple reject a shirt :) ).

But back to the work day...

Here's the gate that opened to Lifeline! Many would come in and Haitians were always hanging out around the compound area.

Chrissy, Nicole (pictured above), and I got to paint it!

After lunch, Michael joined us to do the other side

Then this was before the Ladies Praise and Worship, we got to take some nice pictures!

Hannah, Taylor, Abby

Sarah and I

Sarah fishtailing Joia's hair..

(Abbey, Sadie, Taylor, Nathan, Sarah, Joia)

..which turned into the braiding train :)

Taylor, Sadie, and Abbey :)

Abby and the Hannah's

And on that t-shirt is the song we sang for the Ladies Praise and Worship. The ladies from another church planned a couple activities for the night. That night we sang, had a couple people give their testimonies, gave a message and did a craft. It was pretty fun. :)

Here's the song:

 

We are family We are family

Working together in Harmony

Lifting up the Savior

For the world to see

 Praise the Lord

We are family

-Emma :)

Haiti: Sports Camp

 Now to be honest this was probably one of my favorite days. Why? Because we were with kids who had tons of energy and were happy. Now this is probably typical of all Haitians, but spending your time playing with these kids is so rewarding, they all want to play with you and just be with you because they know that you care about them and came to spend your day with them.

 The usual goofy pictures for day five!

 I actually got in a picture!

 Abby learning how to spin a basketball on her finger!

 Another bus ride!

 I was at the free play station, there was jump rope, Frisbee, and wiffle ball

 The gate was randomly laying on the ground :)

 This girl was so spunky!

 She was copying a pose that Hannah was showing her :)

 Talking before the Haitian vs. American soccer game

 Hannah with a couple of the girls that were hanging out around us watching the game

      When it was time to leave, many Haitian kids were still clinging to their newest American friends and they would all wave to the bus leaving.

Now I didn't get many pictures, this one was taken while we were walking, but later that afternoon we did "layettes" which was basically going to mothers home who had children from newborn to toddler age and talking to them, praying, and gifting them with a "baby shower in a bag". About 13 of us went and we all had one specific baby for us, I had the daughter of Lifeline's church's pastor. She was one year old and wearing an adorable bathing suit. Of course when I held her, she cried, but that's alright. :)

-Emma :D