Haiti Day 3 and Day 4

Day 3:

Its been a wonderful third day here in Haiti! Today we woke up and ate breakfast then headed over to the orphanage. When we drove up to the church the kids surrounded the van and tap-tap with the biggest and warmest smiles. It was truly beautiful. We then chilled with some of the kids while they sang and danced. Some of us went to go paint a room and some of the guys helped mix cement for a tiling project.

 After our lunch of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, we headed on over to the orphanage. Because this was our second day they remembered us pretty well. Yesterday when I first walked into the orphanage some of the kids were afraid of me because my eyes were to small :P it was soooooo funny! One little girl asked me a question in Creole, I quickly turned to one of our translators, James, and this is what the girl asked: "Did God forget to give you eyes?" I laughed so hard afterwards and I replied: "Yes He did…. But you gotta love him :)"

Haha ok sorry that was yesterday, but the kids remembered us today pretty well and we all just hung out with them. We did some coloring pages and then did a yarn project with all of the kids. We brought a soccer ball and volleyball and they enjoyed those so much. All the kids are sooooo sweet and you'll just be standing and then little arms will come around from the back and hug you and they will cling on to you forever! And a lot of the times the littler ones will fall asleep on you. And I came to the realization that they feel safe with you, even just you hugging and smiling at them they feel safe.

We then said our goodbyes to the orphans until tomorrow and we hopped back into the tap-tap and van and left. We stopped at a grocery store but it was more like a bigger gas station without gas. We all got a drink or two and then we drove home. When we got back to the guest house some of us got into a heated game of foursquare. Dinner was served by Francoise, and it was amazing as every meal so far has been. Then we had a really great devotional. We talked about how we are polluted by the world and keeping ourselves pure, but not just sexually pure, but what do we struggle with that makes us polluted? It was very interesting to hear other people's struggles and most all of us struggled with almost everything everyone said.

But in conclusion to this blog, its only been three days and we have all gotten to know each other way better than we started off. And the team has grown together into more unity, which has been amazing. As well as the other relationships we have made, with the orphans, translators, and Francoise and her kids. I myself have felt like I have learned so much and I can't wait to see what tomorrow brings.

~Anjian Hicks

Day 4:

 Today was a very unique day for our team in Haiti. We began the day a little slow with many yawns and a late breakfast, but we arrived at Source de la Grace and jumped right into action with the kids at the orphanage. There were so many beautiful and sweet moments as today was our last official day with the kids. One of those sweet moments was when our team had the opportunity to gather around the children and pray for them.

Love,

Catherine, Kalyn, Evan, Abby, Logan, and John.