The girls worked on painting Jasmine and Greg's house. Courtney spent time with the babies. A few guys from local mission groups came and helped Jasmine and Greg, along with the guys on the team, to begin building a house for the boys to stay in. The 11 boys there have been living in a tent since the earthquake. Regina ran around with a video camera that morning and started doing some interviews.
The house-building began with laying cinderblocks and making a frame for the floorboards. Then frames for the walls, covered with plywood sheets. Holes were cut out for the windows. The building was finished the next day, with a tin roof and completing the sides. The girls carried the bunk beds over from the boys tent and put them in the building. Girls also covered the windows in with screen. The house was completed in 2 days. (Tuesday to Wednesday). We used blocks of wood and plywood sheets to make one big shutter outside the window. We run around in the rain to close the shutters...unless you can close them beforehand. The workers were shocked that the building was completed so fast, because it usually takes a week. But there were many hands involved.. =)
The evening group meeting was wrapped up with a video Jasmine wanted us to watch called Indescribable by Louie Giglio. It's about how big the universe is (how big God is) and how small we are! Jasmine has been reading a book he wrote called "I am not but I Know I AM" which really encouraged her here in Haiti. The title really says it all!
Fun foods: Towards the end of the trip, we had some fish from Haiti, which only a few people ate (it was bony, but yum!). We also had true fruit, a big round fruit, kind of pale yellow inside. It was tasty fried and boiled. We also had something called knips. ("k - nips"). It comes on a stalk with a bunch of green fruit balls attached. You break it open the shell with your teeth, put it in your mouth, and suck on sweet redish inside, then spit out a big seed. Yum and fun!
Regina
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