Wednesday, September 5, 2007

So after I got up today, I got busy taking some pictures, watching the kids play, and doing some emailing. At about 1015, Roland and I went downtown yet again to price shop for cell phones and I think I came to the decision that I am not going to get one. After the day I had none of you would either. First we went to the store that was closed yesterday and they had a good selection but none of the phones I wanted were in stock. The only one that was, was WAY too much money. So, we went down the road to the store that we were at yesterday so I could ask them some price questions. This was the most frustrating and worst cell phone experience I have ever had. First of all, this store had two security guards at the door; one is a shotgun and the other a metal detector. In the one room to this store there were three cases with various cell phones in them, totaling at about 35 phones. Of all those I liked about half a dozen. Here is where there was a problem; I was looking at all these phones, however they only had one of them in stock to sell. Normally, I would accept that, however they couldn’t even tell me when they would be getting a delivery. Second, there were no prices displayed so when I asked them how much a phone was, instead of telling me they kept telling me they did not have any. When I finally got them to understand what I was looking for and the information I wanted, it went a little smoother for a while. That is until they brought out some phones I was not interested in and started to try to sell me those. The final thing that has lead me to now phone hear was their inability to tell me anything about the phones and which one is the better phone and what not. It was clear they did not know anything about cell phones except how to sell them. So I did not buy anything yet, I did however have her order something for me and if she has it next week I may reconsider. After we were done with our disappointing trips to the cell phone store we went back to the Orphanage for lunch. I spent some time with the children and Benna and I took apart one of the water purifiers from Miss Pat’s and cleaned it and changed some of the older dirty pieces. Hopefully, when I try it tomorrow it will work. If it does than in order to fix the other one I must order some more parts. At about 345 I decided to walk to the 7-11 to buy some shoe laces for my church shoes. Roland was outside so he decided to go with me. We did not find anything at the 7-11 so we decided to walk to the market. We ran into the gentleman who lost his house, wife, and one of his children. Roland told him everything he needed to do and all about how we were looking for him the other day. He decided to take us to his lost home, and I am very mad I did not have my camera, because the scenery was picturesque. Roland and I are going to walk that same route again some other time so that I can take some pictures for you all to see. When we got there we meet his two children and some of the rest of the community. His oldest son has a bump on his leg that the doctors told him was a cyst. It really just feels like extra muscle and he said that he is not in any pain. He is going to St. Louis in October to have the American doctor that will be here look at it. They are really excited about coming to the Orphanage. While we were there we meet another gentleman that took us to see some of the other children that are having the same issue with the “cyst.” Once we walked around enough and the gentleman knew when he had to be at the Orphanage by, Roland and I headed to our original destination, the market. On our way to the market I almost bought something that I am sure is going to make me mad that I did not. It was, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” for the original Nintendo, and the lady was only asking 10 Haitian dollars for it. THAT IS LIKE 1.40 in America. DANG!! The “market” was what we Americans call a flea market. Only it was really really big. We found what we were looking for though so that is good. On our way out we witnessed something very bold. One of the vendors called us over and told us to look around and buy something. That was ok because I needed something from her store anyway. I bought some powered lemonade to increase my Vitamin C intake. A nurse friend of Wisley’s wife bought me some Vitamin c supplement and another medicine that will help with my tongue issue. We stopped at this little club on the way back and got something to drink and sat with a gentleman that Roland knew, while he ate dinner. He was a poor fella that was trying to make it, so we bought him dinner and sat and talked with him while he ate. It was a good thing that we were there because some gentlemen from Nicaragua that only spoke Spanish and English were giving the bar tenders a hard time because they only had American money, wanted to buy liquor, and didn’t know the exchange. Fortunately Roland speaks English and Creole so he played as the middle man in this little situation. After that was settled we went back to the Orphanage, we ate dinner and I played with the children for a little bit. I really don’t feel very well though because of this thing with my tongue, which is making it a little difficult to talk, so I went to my room to read and relax. I took a bath and started working on my journal until I accidently fell asleep in the middle of everything. Oops. I woke at about 2am to find that I had ignored about half a dozen people on instant messenger and had a bunch of gibberish on the screen from sleeping on my keyboard. Good times at the Chalet Orphanage. Oh well, that is it for today. Peace.