I'm sorry I've been kinda slow to post. Our plane flew in late last-Friday and we drove home on Saturday. I've been home since about noon Saturday. So much has happened that I don't know where to begin. I'm going to break everything into a series of shorter posts about a specific thing. My goal is about two per day.
I thought I'd focus on Creole for this first post. The language barrier was much more difficult than I could have imagined. I didn't realize how much we communicate through words. Aleia, a girl from our partner team from Iowa, and I tried to teach a group of kids tag through motions. It didn't work. The kids just gave us the These Americans are crazy look.
Creole is a deviation of French. Instead of bonjor, they say bonjou, which means good morning. Many of the words are very similar, but it definitely isn't the same language. Many people do speak both Creole and French because French is taught in school.
I don't know what we would have done without our translators. I don't think any of our our ministry would have been effective without them.
Thursday, June 18, 2015
Monday, June 1, 2015
Our Week in Haiti
Since we are leaving in less than a week, I thought I'd inform you on what we will be doing. In the mornings on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, we will be doing mercy ministry in the school for deaf and disabled children. I'm not completely sure what all that entails, but I think we will just be spending one on one time with the girls. There are 12 girls who live in the school.
Then we will be planting trees. We have two trees to plant per day.
After all that, we will be running a three day VBS (Vacation Bible School) at the church. We don't have a theme, but we will be doing different crafts, skits, lessons, and games with the kids. I am organizing the crafts, while Jerry is organizing the lessons and skits, and Cade is organizing the games. We are expecting between 20 and 100 kids, It should be a lot of fun.
On Thursday, we are going to a small town outside of Port-Au-Prince where we will spend half the day at the beach and the other half with an orphanage and then we will fly out the following morning.
But as Rudy, our trip manager put it, Haiti is the land of flexibility so any if this could change.
Then we will be planting trees. We have two trees to plant per day.
After all that, we will be running a three day VBS (Vacation Bible School) at the church. We don't have a theme, but we will be doing different crafts, skits, lessons, and games with the kids. I am organizing the crafts, while Jerry is organizing the lessons and skits, and Cade is organizing the games. We are expecting between 20 and 100 kids, It should be a lot of fun.
On Thursday, we are going to a small town outside of Port-Au-Prince where we will spend half the day at the beach and the other half with an orphanage and then we will fly out the following morning.
But as Rudy, our trip manager put it, Haiti is the land of flexibility so any if this could change.
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