Christine, one of Tim's team member, went back to the States this morning. She's a lab technician, and she was here with us for a weekend and a half. The rest of the team goes back on Tuesday, but she left early because she's needed at work. She's one of the older people on the team but one of the liveliest. She'll definitely be missed.
Instead of going straight to the clinic this morning, a group of us went to the prayer tree. Every Thursday people gather there to praise and worship God under a big mango tree a few minute walk from where we are. There were probably about 150 to 200 people. It was really good to see the Haitian people passionately worshipping God together even though I could only understand about every other word.
Since Thursdays are Well Baby Clinic, we got to see a lot of babies, most of them healthy and smiling. They are so adorable. Carly and Emily were helping out with taking weights and temperature. Sometimes I wasn't sure if they were working or just admiring the babies... jk. I got to help out by giving them vitamin A drops, polio oral vaccine drops, and DPT shots. I used to not like it when babies cried, but after doing a pediatric preceptorship last quarter, I got used to having babies and little kids cry. So now I love kids whether they're smiling or crying.
We had some free time in the afternoon, so we decided to do some cleaning around the clinic. There were a lot of trash lying around and lots big logs with wood chips because they had to cut down a tree in the middle of the clinic to make way for the new building. After we cleaned up the mess we tossed mangoes at each other like "Hot Potato," except with mangos they can actually explode after you drop it a few times.Afterwards I got a Creole lesson from Wadner for the first time. We just had a little chat for about an hour. I just need to work on listening skills, so he said he'll bring some story books in Creole next time, so he can read it out loud to me. We'll see how that works out. While our lesson was going on, people were playing football (soccer), so I missed out, but maybe next time.
Later in the afternoon, a tree somehow fell on one of the power-lines in the compound, so Amy and Julie's house lost electricity. We had to turn off all electricity for a while to get things fixed. I've been getting used to having stable electricity here unlike in P-au-P last year. I hope Amy and Julie get their power back soon.
A group of us played some UNO and Hilari-picto-pass after dinner. We had 10 people playing Hilari-picto-pass this time, and it was one of the funniest round ever. It's great to have people you can bond with. I'm going to missed them so much when they leave next week.
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