Haiti Day 3

 Snapshots from today:

This is another unfinished house.  It's one of the nicer ones.  Luckily, the northern area of Haiti didn't get as decimated by the earthquake, leaving a few bigger buildings standing like this one.

Here is the road we drive down to get to the orphanage we worked at today.  It's the nicest road in the whole country I think.  Just paved unlike the dirt/gravel roads in the capital city.

More of the little town nearby.

The mountains.  Aren't they lovely?

A la plage (at the beach):

Just wanted to add a few pics of our relax time after working.  Here's our beach just outside our room.

It look cool, but it's not very comfy.

Justice and I taking in the waters.

We are just so talented.

Letting ourselves be washed up.

We made it!

We were trying to pretend we were dead, but the wave competely engulfed us.  We had water up our nose, sand in our eyes.  Sand everywhere really.  It took a while to get all the sand off and out of our hair.  But, it was worth it.  It felt like the temp of bath water, yet not too warm because it still felt refreshing.

Today on the site I was "head-painter" since I'd had some painting experience.  I would've made mom proud.  We were painting the main building in white and orangish-brown (yeah, gorgeous right? :P).  It was mostly indoors though, so I didn't have to worry about getting burned today, yay!  I got another few opportunities to speak French with the young people.  I'm getting a little better at speaking French and much more confident.  But most of the time, I'm not really needed since knowing Creole is much more needed, especially when working with the children.  So, it is rare that people ask for my help, I just usually find it quite convenient when getting around and getting people to paint better.  It was a good day, I think.  I have no idea what we'll be doing tomorrow, more painting I suppose, since we still have more white paint left.

Until tomorrow everyone! Bonne nuit!