-Yes, it was a VERY long night, sitting up on a hard wood bench, attempting to sleep with chattering youth all about (they were so wired with anticipation).
-5am ate breakfast... hadn’t eaten since noon the day before except for an airline bag of pretzel sticks. Very thankful for fast food stands at the airport!
-6:15am boarded a plane for Haiti. I had the privilege of sitting between 2 Haitian men. Very polite and engaging in good conversation about who I am and who they are. Loved it! Over and over again they thanked me for coming and helping their people.
-Touch down, Immigration, customs & a long, long, long walk over broken cobble stones to the most amazing school bus you ever did see!
-Camas School District bus drivers, you ain’t seen nothing until you have been on a school bus on the main streets of Port-au-Prince! Check out the video attached. (Video won't upload from Haiti... too big of a file for too slow connection-I'll post it when I get home).
-We arrived at Haitian Christian Mission about 11am & met our hosts. These are the most friendly, warm, loving people. What I see in them is their love and passion for the plight of their people. They are spending their lives on serving their neighbors. And, it’s all free: medical clinics, schools, churches, soccer league to encourage school enrollment and good grades, and the vision continues to grow. Please take a look at their web page and see all they are doing to impact a nation for Christ: www.haitianchristianmission.com. Finally by noon we were all assigned rooms. Six ladies in my room and as one of them said, “Thank God for humor.” FOOD was next on the agenda. Being here is like being at a 5 star resort in the tropics with all of your cousins!
-POWER NAP! Did I capitalize that? So, 4am Friday-noon Saturday: 32 hours without sleep. Dog tired. Glad the temperature didn’t rise too high today and the humidity is fine.
-A tour of the facility, greeting more new friends, dinner and a team meeting. That’s all we had left. We were scheduled to play games and we all opted for bed. “Why,” you say? Because we have to get up at 4am to be at breakfast by 5am and off by 5:30am for church! Lights out. Instant snoring! Oh, and we have an air-conditioner in our bedroom with a fan directly over my bed. Did I selfishly take that bed first before anyone else got in the room? You are darn toot’n. Hey, seniority in age comes in handy and I took advantage of the position of respect. Sure is weird being the oldest, I’ve always been the baby. Hey don’t even run with that open ended ending!
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