Road Trip and Breaking Ground

Over the weekend of the 21st, we took a road trip up to Cap Haitien.  Beaver, Kervens and I took our motorcycles from Gonaives up to Cap on Saturday.  We found a hotel and relaxed a bit after the ride.  On Sunday, we rode to Milot to start the tour of the Citadelle (Google it).  Huge fortress built on the top of a mountain two hundred years ago.  We spent most of the day on the tour, then returned to our hotel in Cap for the evening.  The next morning, we hopped on our motorcycles for the return trip to Gonaives.  There are plenty of more pictures of this trip on my facebook page.

When I got back, they were building stuff without me!  We put together a couple of prefabricated shelters on top of foundations and poured concrete floors.  We put a skim coat of concrete on top of the siding to make the houses more durable and so that they look appropriate in the community.  We have also built up some ground where we will be building the medical clinic.  The raised area there is where we will dig footings and build the clinic.

We had help from a couple of weeks worth of groups building and painting some tables for Pastor Genata.  The kids needed some short tables to play on, so that is what we built.  Four, four foot square tables, at various heights.  I got to use the router bits that my Dad sent to me through one of the groups!  Thanks Dad!  The tables look great!

That last picture is of Emory's neice Marley helping out with the painting!

On Friday of this week, I start teaching English at the Amen Institute.  I made sure to make it clear to them that I have no education experience, but that did not deter them from wanting me to help.  I will be teaching two classes a week at this school.  I will also start teaching English next week at the school in Jubilee.  I am very excited to start building relationships with these young people through the teaching of the English language.