Rats, Boxes and Babies

Sorry I didn't blog yesterday for all you faithful readers haha. I wrote out my whole blog and then it wouldn't save! Very frustrating. So I'll try to remember what happened yesterday. In the morning I spent some time with the babies. L's adoptive dad is here and he was really cranky yesterday. I went to the nursery and talked with Esther the nurse and she was translating everything I was saying to the other nurse that didnt speak english. She wanted to see a picture of my mom so I have to remind myself to bring it in my bag sometime this week. Esther wants me to teach her how to play guitar one day. Its so nice to be able to chat with the nannies, they are very interesting people and are very loving.

In the afternoon we tackled the balcony sorting out all the stuff up there. What we thought would be a small job turned into a huge job. There was soo much stuff up there that was old and needed to be thrown out. Then the huge turn off was the dead rat we found in one of the boxes all decomposed with just the eyes and teeth and it smelt horrendous. I grabbed a pair of gloves with Steph, Sheila and Britt and started chucking everything into garbage bags. Gross. Then at the end of the sorting, cleaning and packing we were grabbing one of the last boxes and all of a sudden a rat jumped out of the box, yes a live rat. And these things are huge here in Haiti. I didnt see it but heard all the girls piercing screams. So now we have a rat on our balcony, just wonderful we set a trap today.

Another volunteer came yesterday Ryhan who is taking Melanies job as she and Dixie leave tomorrow. Melanie's job is adoption update coordinator so Ryhan is going to do some of that work. Dixie is off to the states to see family, see childre n that have been adopted and then is heading to Europe to see more children.

Since Dixie is leaving we celebrated her adoptive son Steeves birthday last night at Fort Jaques. It was a big celebration as about 40 of us headed up crammed into vehichles to have a hot dog roast around the campfire. Lots of fun got to talk to the volunteers and just relax. Got in at about 9:00 last night showered and headed to bed. We beat the record of the most people in a vehicle here 11 last night. 4 in the back of the trunk part, 3 in the middle and 4 in the front one was a little baby. I forgot to mention about a little boy named Claricineu who came to GLA and you could see everyone of his ribs he was so malnourished. He has been hanging out with Miss Vicki the nurse everyday and she has been fattning him up! You should see him now I wish I could post pictures but its too slow. That lady is a miracle worker and she is such a kind hearted lady.

Now too today. Felt a little lazy and exhauted today for some reason. All the volunteers except for me, Britt, Amy and Dave went out to Kenscoff to distribute bags to the Haitian people full of goods. Since we are staying longer than everyone else we will have a chance to go next week Amy and Dave have been here awhile and I believe they have already gone once. So they had to take care of Peterson and Claricineu since Miss Vicki went to distributing too. Hung out with some of the kids in the morning and then me and Britt tackled the bathroom which had a bunch of things that needed to be sorted and given out for distribution. That was a messy job. We are all worn out of organizing and cleaning.

Theres this one little boy who is very interesting we call him spanky because his name is hard to pronounce and I cant post his real name on here. I believe he has some developmental delays and is one and on his sheet said he doesnt crawl, but today he crawled and I was pretty excited for him:) He just loves to be loved and cuddled and sleeps a lot so Im trying to get him to play more.

Had shrimp and curry today as per Mark's request who is another one of Dixie's adopted sons whose birthday will be while she is gone away. After dinner had bible study and I played my guitar again and man the strings on the guitar hurt my fingers.

Another little girl I want to tell you about is J. She is a chunky thing but has club feet really bad. And Dixie's been trying to get her a medical visa to go to the states to get surgery for her legs/feet but has been unsuccesful since trying to do anything in Haiti right now is quite difficult. It breaks my heart and a lot of doctors supposedly wont do it for free which I find very frustrating! That little girl deserves a chance to walk!

Anyways sorry for writing so long tonight but had to fill you in on two days!