Saturday, January 12, 2008

Today started at 330 for me since I had to make sure that the group was all up and ready to go by 430. Once I was showered and around I got everyone up and we fed them something small and coffee and we all piled in the mission bus and headed to the airport. The trip seemed like it took forever, and I was just about to be very sick when we pulled up in front of the airport, WOO-HOO. We got there at about 545, and there were no planes waiting for us and very little Haitians already waiting there, so we had great position to make both of the flights that we needed to. It was now a game of sit and wait for the plans to arrive to take everyone to Port-au-Prince. Fortunately, no got antsy waiting for the planes to show up, which happened at about 650 and they showed up back to back so everyone was in the air with all their carry-on’s and the one check bag that got forgotten by 720 which made everyone at the mission breathe easy. I came to find that after the bus dropped us off the driver only waited 25 minutes before he left so I had to find my own way back to the mission. It was ok though because I took money with me to the airport and just caught a moped to the tap tap station and then took a tap tap back to the mission. The rest of the day was cleaning, cleaning, cleaning, and laundry, laundry, laundry. We broke to eat and then got right back to it. We worked all day and put a little bit of a dent in it, and since we did not meat for devotions because there was no group in, after dinner we played cards and hung out a little with an ease amongst us because travel was incident free this time and we had a wonderful week with this group. Generator off time now though so to bed I go, peace.