Friday, October 19, 2007

Well it was the day before departure for the medical team and only one surgery was scheduled and the OR/scrub help had the day off so they all decided to go on the second goat trip. Roland and I, after showing the new house to the boys (minus Sonel), went to Port-de-Paix to try and buy 2 wall crosses, a cross necklace, shoe laces and coffee. I got ragged by the guys on the tap tap because I was falling asleep on the way down due to being sick and tired. Once we got there we stopped at the Orphanage so I could get some money from Wisley. Only, I found out that Wisley was not there like he said he was going to be, so we had to call him so he could tell his wife to give it to me. After we finally got the money, we caught a few mopeds and headed downtown to start our shopping. Oh what a day this turned out to be. We started out looking for shoelaces and the lady that we usually buy them from was not set up today so we walked to a few other stands and found no match. When we moved on to the wall crosses, we did not have any better luck, only finding one place that sold them and the ones that they sold had really not good looking plastic people hanging from the cross. We walked around so long for this failure, and wound up at this catholic organization where we ran into a lady named Joan Martin, who ironically enough had a message for two people that were at the mission. After resting for a minute we headed to two retail stores to get coffee and then head back to the mission. We found coffee and some cold drinks, and I bought some chocolate for Erin in celebration of a job well done with her music class, and then we headed back to St. Louis. On the way back we saw Mike and Vogley on Mike’s 4-wheeler and were keeping pretty good pace with them until we had to stop to let someone off and then they left us in the dust. Once we got back to the mission, it was only 230 so I went down to recovery to hang with the patients and wound up falling asleep in Sonel’s wheelchair for about an hour. Then I went up to work on the rest of the pictures that Rolgard needed for the website and responded to some emails. I got the chance to chat with some of the medical team that I had not see all that much because of being in the OR the whole time they were here. By the time it was time for dinner we were all wondering where the group that went for goats was, because it was now dark and being that they were in the far west and it was the day before the group flew out, we were getting a little nervous. We made it through dinner and started devotions before the goats and the people showed up. When they did we all breathed a sigh of relief and took a short break so they could get ready for devotions because it was the last night for the group and it is always a big share night. It was really fun to hear them all share stories and insight and encouragement. After about an hour of sharing, people packed and chatted and relaxed. Most of them called it an early night, I tried to stay up with some of the teens but I was getting sicker than I was when I got up so I passed out at like midnight. Peace.