Monday, March 21 in Haiti

Today our whole team worked hard and worked well together to make great progress on the home for Vaddy and mariechimi. While Richard, Emily, Gregg, and Carol worked with several Haitians to fit and secure baskets in place for the rubble, Caleb, Eunice, and Tim(the pastor from Oregon who is working with us) breaking rubble up and carrying the broken pieces to the work site from the street via wheelbarrow. It was amazing to see how hard the neighborhood kids worked along side us all day. We couldn't have done it without them.

After lunch we formed a bucket brigade to transport the rubble from the pile to the top of 9 foot baskets. All the team members contributed to the cause. Eunice--breaking up rubble, shoveling rubble, and posting of facebook all at the same time; Emily--working hard everywhere while entertaining her throng of kids(we hear cheerful shouts of "EmilEEE"!); Richard--is the heart of the team using his construction skills and quite endurance; Gregg--used his spiritual gift to lift about one thousand buckets of rubble up to the top of the basket; Caleb--bravely scaled the heights to balance himself on the top of the basket to pour in the rubble; Carol--organized her "bucket boys" (the neighborhood kids) to toss the emptied buckets back to the begining to be filled with rubble again-all the while doing quality control, first aid, and security for us all. (No she doesn't have her gun :b )

By the end of the day we were very satisfied to have filled three walls with rubble. We also left the site with aching muscles and about a ton of rubble dust caked on our bodies. (Half of which was on Gregg)

Since we arrived there has been a turkey on the guest house grounds... Today, it was our lunch. At first Emily had bonded with the turkey but after the turkey kept her awake all night she was don bonding. Boy was it tasty. We ended the day with fresh, savory goat (Emily was ok with that one too). Then Tiga, our Haitian foreman, took us out for his special recipe smoothies. All in all its been a great day and we are all falling in love with the Haitian people and feeling blessed to be here this week.