To Jacmel and Beyond!

This morning I took charge in the next step of the orphanage sort. The process today was to take a towel, wrap in it shorts, pants, dresses, socks, shoes, shirts, hats, sunglasses, and stuffed animals. We made 20 some packages for boys and 20 some for girls aged 2-12. As I said previously, these clothes are really quite nice. In the afternoon I prepared for my upcoming satellite project (see next paragraph). For dinner we had make-your-own egg sandwiches. On one hand it was a nice change from rice and beans but on the other hand, egg sandwiches are what sustain me every Sunday. Oh well, I can’t complain – the food here suits me fine. This evening I’ve just been milling around, packing, and will try to get a good amount of sleep tonight.

Tomorrow (and Friday and Saturday) are going to be exciting days for me. I’ll be heading to Jacmel, a coastal town about an hour and a half from Leogane. There is a group of about ten of us going and we’ll be doing seminars on disaster preparedness as well as art therapy as a medium for dealing with traumatized children. I did this locally a couple weekends ago and it went really well so we decided to expand. Over the course of three days we’ll be working with over 200 teachers! I’ll be doing the same portion I did last time – giving some background on fires and floods and talking about how to stay safe in case a fire of flood occurs. During our time we’ll be staying in a tent and (hopefully) will get some beach time. I’ll be leaving very early tomorrow morning and getting back Saturday night – this means I most likely will be unable to blog or email at all until Saturday or Sunday. I’ll miss the connectivity but I’ll hopefully come back this weekend with some cool stories.

I’m off to do a few more emails and finish packing. Be sure to tune back into my blog, which will be updated by Sunday AT THE LATEST!

Have a great rest of the week and lovely weekend.

Love,

Daniel