Being Creative

Mme Atis is our head cook and she is very creative in the kitchen.  She is talented at arranging and displaying food.  Tonight, we enjoyed goat, rice and this beautiful salad.

New Development in Port au Prince

Port au Prince is the capital city of Haiti with a population of 3.5 million people.  An overpass is currently being built at one of the very busy intersections.

Moving Day for the Bees

Our bee keeper is moving our beehive from our main campus to the Children's Village Campus because they are know too close to the Technical School shop buildings.
Here are some shots....

Sound Booth Troubles!

The sound booth in the church at Haiti ARISE seems to have the most unusual situations in it!
Last year, we had our bees decide to move into it twice and now we have a situation with chickens.  A hen laid eggs on top of the booth (the top is not solid).  The chicks hatched and fell through the cracks in between the walls and are trapped there.  Then, chicken lice started to fall from the rafters onto the heads of the people in the booth and on the equipment!  They were quite 'grossed out'.  Fortunately, these are not like human lice that will infect people.  After lots of spray (similar to Raid), they were under control.

Stevens, one of our worship leaders in the sound booth

Another Day...

Monday evening is the night that the ladies of the church come together to study the Bible and pray and encourage each other.  This week, they are planning a mysterious event following church this Sunday.  They love to have fun. All we know is that it was announced last Sunday to bring some money for this....surprise.

Here are the ladies meeting in the school yard, making their plans....

The work crew continues to work on the Children's Village septic fields.

Furry, Crawly Things!

Some of the guys from Saskatoon found a tarantula that they thought they would catch and bring back to show us and scare some of the girls.  Mission accomplished!  Wade donned his leather gloves and coaxed it out of the can and let it crawl up his arm a ways.  He said that it felt very light and very fuzzy.  Perhaps he'll become a tarantula whisperer!

 Also, today, Lorne and Ken from Saskatoon started to erect the new clothes line poles just outside the kitchen/laundry area.  Mme Luc will surely appreciate this as she won't have to carry loads of laundry on her head up two flights of stairs any longer.

Children's Village Continues and Getting Ready for Grand Opening

The work on the Children's Village is continuing.  There is a Haitian work crew digging the septic fields for the duplexes with spades.  It is the goal to get the village ready for its first 'family' of children and their house parents in the very near future.

With the help of the teams that are here, we are getting ready for the Grand Opening of the Technical School and the Medical Clinic in November.  One of the many projects of sprucing up around here this week the repainting of the front gate.  It sparkles in the sunlight!