Thursday, August 30, 2007

Today was a good day, although when I got up there was no water for me to take a shower with (except a little water I had in a bucket in my bathroom, which I used to wash my hair and brush my teeth) and the plumber still did not come to rescue my glasses. It is ok though, because I spoke with him myself today and, he will be here tomorrow. After breakfast, I spent some time playing with the little ones. One of the older boys, Tigens, asked me to help him with his English lessons today so I did that until about 10. Roland and I then decided to take a walk and site see for a while, so we walked to Port-de-Paix and went to some areas that we never really see when we are doing mission errands. It was really cool, because we got to see some of the nicer parts of the city. For instance, we went to the place called, Enterprises Canaan, which was a two level restaurant with a 70 person movie theatre in it as well. The guy that runs it was very nice and gave us a tour. After we had some Sprite at Canaan, we walked to what I named the medical mile. It was a street that had only Pharmacies and Clinique’s on it, because the dead end it was leading to was the Hospital. The Hospital was broken up into several different buildings; offices, morgue, pharmacy, lab, surgery, etc. We did not go into any of the buildings though because I did not want to be nosey at a Hospital. We passed by several different churches on our walk today; Mormon, Catholic, Jehovah Witness, and of course Christian. We also saw a public school and a private school. Once we got into the market part of city, it got busy. For a couple of days I have been seeing people carry around slushies. Being that is was so very hot and humid, I wanted to try one. I come to find that they are called Fresko here. It is really neat how they make them. The person who is making them has their own cart that they push around with two blocks of ice on it and 8-10 different syrup on it. They use, what to me looks like a cheese grater, to shave the ice, creative. While we were walking around drinking our Freskos, Roland said that the locals were commenting on how they were surprised that a white man was drinking their stuff. We took a walk to the other part of the docks and saw what goes on there. While we were there the clouds rolled in and it looked like it was going to rain. As we were walking back to the Orphanage it did in fact begin to rain. Oh well though, we both refused to speed up our pace. When we got back to the Orphanage, and after we ate, I spent some more time doing English with Tigens and playing with some of the children. At about 5 Roland and I walked to a round robin soccer scrimmage. It was just 4 on 4 with no goalie but it was a lot better than the boys at the Orphanage because these guys actually worked as a team to get goals. I filmed a little bit of it which got some nasty comments and gestures from the players and fans so I stopped. We were there for about an hour and then headed back for dinner and more activity with the children. After dinner I just chilled outside until about 830 then took a shower and retired for the evening. Peace.