5 am came way to soon once again, but I was beginning to get used to this whole getting up extremely early thing that I'm not accustomed to back home. This morning was the best morning yet because we got to go down to the MOH School and see all of the children arrive. There are currently 1250 children enrolled at the MOH that walk who knows how far to school every morning. All of these children are sponsored (mainly by people in the U.S.) because it costs $35 a month per child to attend school. When we arrived at the school we were swarmed by children, it was amazing! They were the most precious things in their cute little matching uniforms. We got to hang out with them for about 30 minutes and then all of the kids were called to line up in front of the school by the flagpoles, and they said a prayer! It was then time for the children to go to class, I was sad because I still wanted to hang out and play with them...
After we left the school, I had to help sort medical supplies till noon again! I was starting to get used to the heat but we were getting physically exhausted as the week went on!
Today was a day that I realized how much I LOVED being in Haiti, yes of course I missed my family and friends and I hated that I couldn't really talk to them....but today was the day that I knew that I definitely wanted to come back to Haiti and maybe even live in Haiti for awhile. I mean I am young, not married, nor do I have kids (and I don't see any of this happening in the near future) SO why not use this opportunity that God has given me and do what I am called to do? So I have been praying about this and will continue to pray about this important decision...After lunch we had the privilege of going to a remote orphanage called Tytoo Gardens. There were only about 20 children at this orphanage and most of them were older children.
I was torn because I didn't know what I should do to interact with the older children. It's easy to interact with the babies and toddlers because they just want to be held, but when it comes to the older children I didn't know what to do....SOOO I thought for a moment and then it dawned on me! What do older girls love to do in Haiti you ask???? BRAID!!! So I went and got the translator and had them ask the girls to braid my hair! They were thrilled to do it and let me just say it HURT so bad, but they were trying to be very gentle with me! But beauty is pain right?? Wrong! I'm not sure the look fit me too well..
Fortunately for me, you won't be seeing any pictures of the final product because of course as soon as the girl was about 3/4ths of the way done, we are told that we need to leave immediately because they need the bus back at the mission by a certain time! So I had to walk around with my hair only 3/4ths of the way braided while the other part was like a fro...Needless to say I got back to the MOH, took a nap on my lovely new hairdo, and when I woke up had a KILLER headache because the braids were so tight...I seeked some help and after about 20 minutes they were all out, I felt awful for taking them out but I felt much better once my hair was back to normal! Today was the 2nd day of hurricane season and around dinner it started raining, no scratch that pouring, no scratch that it was a MONSOON! So we just hung around cabin and played games! It was a nice relaxing evening and I got a great nights rest :)
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