Recharged
After this weekend I am recharged and ready to go. This week we were blessed to have 4 teams that were amazing. They were all eager to help… and help… and continue helping. It was an inspiration. One group put on the retreat for the churches. They had over 200 Haitians from the 4 churches together in Cite Soleil for the week doing all kinds of things. The medical group provided health care to the people at the retreat. The construction group built more roofs and other projects than I can count right now.Needless to say – we had a great week.
One of the teams booked a trip to the beach on Friday and Saturday and invited me along. I was SOOO thankful. I haven’t been away from the compound for a real break in a long time – and now that I think of it, I haven’t ever really been away for a break. We are able to go to the beach with teams a good bit, but that is traveling there and back, translating everything, keeping up with everyone, spending time with them – so it’s really not a break. Going to the beach with a team almost makes me more tired than if I were to just stay at the compound. But being able to go for 2 full days was a great treat. I was able to kick back and relax. I went snorkeling this time at the reef. It was beautiful.
We all made it back to the compound at about 6:30pm tonight. There was an awful wreck on the way home. One of the crazy and incredibly dangerous buses collided with a sedan head on. It crushed the little car. There was so much traffic backed up. I think the driver was killed and the passenger broke both legs. That is just what I heard, but when we drove by it looked pretty accurate.
When we arrived home I saw Ronic and Daudier both waiting on me… to get paid. I snuck out of the tap tap so they wouldn’t see me. It was really funny. When I made it up to my room I noticed a water cooler that was out of place. I opened it and saw that it was full of water balloons. I quickly figured that there was something that was supposed to have already gone down. I was correct. Nathan and some of the other staff were going to bomb the people in the last two tap taps. Anyways, I found them and started throwing them across the compound to where they were eating dinner. They couldn’t believe I found them. They quickly came running. We had a nice water fight.The teams enjoyed it as well.
Today was great. I really needed a day or two to myself.
Also, I am ready for the staff retreat on Monday. It should be a very fun time. I’ll let you know.
Always with Love,
Stephen