Saturday Morning - Day 5

The team is off and running again this morning, while I spend some time on my bed, keeping my feet up.  I seem to have developed some severe swelling in my feet and it makes walking difficult.

As I am typing, I can hear the Haitian men outside preparing supper.  It's a two day process. They are making chicken and rice.  They started yesterday afternoon, and then arrived around 5am this morning to continue.  The preparation is very different than how we do it in Canada.  All I can say is Health Canada would have a hay day with this  :)
 The ladies conference will move to the beach today and we will pamper the Haitian ladies with hand massages, painting nails, jewelry making and teaching crocheting.  We are expecting 80-100 ladies, so we will be kept busy.

Some of the team went to experience the outdoor market here in Grand Goave.  I gave three of the ladies a shopping list to buy some items for the hygiene bags we will be giving out on Monday at the tent city.  It will be interesting to hear of their experience and see how they made out as it is not like shopping in Moose Jaw  lol.

The rest of the team is working on various projects - wiring homes, working on the security wall for the children's village, doing last minute prep work before pouring the medical clinic roof and even installing an air conditioner(which is very important) just ask those staying in the rooms that don't have them.  It is difficult to sleep and some have moved their mattresses to the roof to get some relief from the heat.  Hopefully by tonight, they will have some airconditioning.

Everyone is healthy and seems to be getting on very well.    It's hard to believe we have been gone almost six days already.

Signing off for now.
Kathleen