"I'm seriously going to throw a rock at it!" - Emma
But seriously, we wake up every morning (some of us earlier than others) to the sounds of the animals who live nearby. First of all there is a rooster. We think his vocal chords have been damaged in cock fights because his crow ("Cock-a-doodle-doo-ing" - Nicole) starts in a hiss and is very raspy! Second is our 'friend' goat. Last night it was screaming!! We don't know what's wrong with it. Emma thought that it was giving birth. Nicole thought that it was being attacked by a dog. (It's shrieks were interspersed with barking...but the dogs could have been just as annoyed as we were.)
Oh by the way, we've named our light-inhabiting lizard friend Pascale.
Yesterday Nicole and Emma stayed at Kay B (house B) all day because they were sick. They ended up sleeping a lot and watching the first season of Friends. The rest of us had a lot of fun at the main house playing with babies and cleaning all of the toys.
A lot of the kids are sick right now including two of the ones who Ashalee is responsible for. Normally we have eight hours to distribute between four kids but yesterday Ashalee had the same amount of time but only two babies. She got a little bored.
One of the little girls that Ashalee plays with is good at finding her own toys to play with. This little girl usually just points to a toy she wants to play with and Ashalee will get it for her. Yesterday Ashalee was sitting on the floor and the little girl pointed to a doll laying face down on the ground behind her. Ashalee picked it up and showed her and the little girl started screaming and backing up! (The doll is actually quite scary!!)
Nicole and Emma are both feeling a lot better today thankfully! We got taken down to the market this afternoon to do a bit of shopping. When we got out of the vehicle one of the staff at GLA, Joyce, told us to be careful crossing the street. It is not like Canada, the people driving will not stop... and if they hit you they will just keep going. Thankfully none of us were injured. The Haitian men at the stands were helpful in telling us when it was safe to cross the street... mostly because they wanted us to buy their stuff.
A lot of the staff here are from the US and we get a good laugh when they come down in the morning wearing jeans, sweaters with hoods up, socks and flip flops and mini mitts. Our whole team is usually wearing shorts, t-shirts and sunscreen. I guess we are a little more used to COLD.
Our weekends are pretty relaxed. On Saturday we will either be taken to the market by GLA staff, go for walks down to the waterfall with some of the locals or just hang out at the Toddler House (Kay B). On Sunday we go to church and then have the rest of the day to just relax.
Thank you for praying for our team. Please keep all the kids in your prayers also!
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