I woke up to the sound of Haitian voices chanting what I believe to be some sort of Gregorian chant. This is since right next to the Villa is a Catholic monastery/convent...not sure which - seems it may be both ?
Then the breakfast bell rang - shoot! I was going to be late on my first day! Actually I wasn't - yay me :D
Breakfast was oatmeal, toast, strawberry jam and peanut butter - the good stuff - runny and delicious. I had a piece of mango but it wasn't ripe :( the pineapple was good though!
I spoke with Marilyn about the rules - pretty relaxed actually - the only pool rule is you can't drown! I can wear whatever I want. No loud laughing after 10pm.
Bible study is Thursday am's at 9ish (more like 9:30). I was welcome to join. I did - I went back to my room and unpacked a little. Then came back out - I didn't understand hardly anything at all but that's ok :D It's only my first day!
(ugh - I'm so tired...quickly...no details ;))
Tried to get Skyped in for MFM Coffeebreak just after 10 - but no such luck ;D Did get to talk to Dad for a few and set up a time after lunch to Skype. Facebooked, uploaded pics....got to chat with Jessica just a bit.
Had lunch just with Marilyn as the groups are out (there are two here - one with ACTS World Relief and one with WGM) It was good - left over spaghetti but with corn and sour cream (I think) and baked! Love it!!!
Skyped with Dad - Mom'd had to go back to the office so missed her... went back to my room thinking I'd finish unpacking my first suitcase but was exhausted and fell asleep - not sure how long for? Woke up at 4:43pm. Had arranged to Skype with M&D at 5:00 - twas pretty good.
Dinner at 6:00 - Rice and beans - yum with Kreyole sauce, beef, and salad...yum, yum. After dinner some of the members of the WGM team went out to buy some souvenirs - I went along just to look.
Back into the Villa - read some from Gulliver's travels on my Nook - Bill Booker (WGM) was heading over to Karly's (missionaries adopted son whom I met in 2007 - is married with two kids) house to pay him for some cards he'd bought - I wanted to see him again - not sure he remembers me? not yet anyway - maybe if I show him some of the pics :D
Came back just as it started to rain...rained for a little bit and then looked like it was going to stop and then all the sudden picked up again and poured - wonderfully! One of the ACTS team members - Amanda and I both liked it so were the last one sitting outside getting soaked...amazing! and quite cool!
Some of the other team members were playing Spoons and invited us in - we went. She just watched but I played a few rounds - won one :D
Quote of the night:
Me: "Why are there only two spoons on the table?"
Mark: "I don't know."
we keep playing :D hilarious - we'd not noticed that Jim Reynolds ("Dude, that's awesome") had taken one, as had Victoria - Nikki and I both got one and Mark was out once it kinda dawned on me that I should take a spoon :D
Anyway that's about it. Did meet a Jean who works for ACTS and is willing to take me to the one orphanage where a widow with five kids aged 5-14 is suffering from paralysis and bedsores; she is an earthquake victim. Her 14 year old daughter is currently her primary care giver...they are all living at the orphanage...not sure how much longer she'll be alive? She's got a catheter and shows some signs of improvement - able to move her upper body now and has some feeling in her lower extremities - but is refusing food and drink. There was also a baby who is malnourished that the ACTS team wanted me just to do some f/u care on - so we'll see about that. Jean seems like a nice guy - very polite and servanthearted.
Anyway enough from me for now - :) "and then to bed, and then to bed!"
