Today a few of the girls went down to the fishhouse to prepare meals to feed the elderly. They got to know all of the women and men associated with the program, sharing their names and learning a little bit more of Creole. A couple of the teachers and workers from the mission came to help the ladies with the program too, so they helped translate ALOT for them. :D The teachers brought nail polish with them, and the fishhouse women (and men) were so excited to try all of the colors on their fingernails. After the manicures, the women showed a few of them how to prepare the seasoning for the food. The Haitian women are gifted in the art of cutting onions and peppers as thin as they can get. Seriously, their slices are transparent! They showed the girls how to cut the onions and peppers and left them to finish the job. After the Hatian women cooked and prepared the food into the to go boxes, they offered the girls some food to eat. They felt bad for eating the food when others didn't have any, but they did not want to be rude-so they shared a plate. After a heated discussion over the food distribution from the Hatian women, they set out to deliver the food boxes. The girls were not able to go with the women, but they sent their love and prayers.
For the last eye clinic while we still had the chance, there were about 15 people who came and most of them were small kids wanting to get checked, along with their moms. It was really awesome doing the exam and having the kids try and listen to Dr. Wayne and myself give instructions to them to look at the "E" chart and some of the kids we were able to help with having them leave with a new pair of glasses! Awesome!! We also helped one of the nurses who came and she had her eyes checked by Dr. Wayne and he was able to get her dialed in and boy was she happy once she was able to see the eye chart. It was like I CAN SEE AGAIN and she yelled so loud it kinda scared us a little really cool. The last guy was a Driver, yes I said driver that brought a bunch of these people to the clinic, yes today. The guy looked to be in his early 20's and he sat down and when we started he could only see and make out letters on the top two rows, you gotta be kidding, is this a joke you're the Driver I was thinking to myself, outloud to Dr. Wayne and Ashley, really that's all he could see, crazy!! So the Doc did his exam and we searched high and low and by the grace of GOD we were able to find him a pair of these older glasses. The Driver could actually see the entire chart after getting his old but new glasses, as we were giving the glasses to him we noticed the glasses were dirty! So we went to clean the glasses up and we used what someone said to use and that stuff would work great, NOT the glasses fogged up and we tried to clean the glasses over and over, they were not cleaning up and the driver and everyone at this point is waiting to get a picture with us and wanting to show off their new glasses. We were scambling to fing something, anything at this point, we found some hidden cleaner and finally the glasses were clean. The whole time we didn't have the heart to tell the driver we just messed up his new glasses and thank God we didn't because he left with his glasses and the nurse who came with him was so happy he could see behind the wheel, because no one knew his eyes were messed up from his group, except his crazy, scary, driving...
Thats it for now....we are falling asleep and have to be up at the crack of dawn....Ashley has asked to be baptized in the ocean in the morning before we leave...
We are getting sad about our trip ending so soon, but sat tonight talking about our trip in May!!
Love you all....pray for safe travels
For the last eye clinic while we still had the chance, there were about 15 people who came and most of them were small kids wanting to get checked, along with their moms. It was really awesome doing the exam and having the kids try and listen to Dr. Wayne and myself give instructions to them to look at the "E" chart and some of the kids we were able to help with having them leave with a new pair of glasses! Awesome!! We also helped one of the nurses who came and she had her eyes checked by Dr. Wayne and he was able to get her dialed in and boy was she happy once she was able to see the eye chart. It was like I CAN SEE AGAIN and she yelled so loud it kinda scared us a little really cool. The last guy was a Driver, yes I said driver that brought a bunch of these people to the clinic, yes today. The guy looked to be in his early 20's and he sat down and when we started he could only see and make out letters on the top two rows, you gotta be kidding, is this a joke you're the Driver I was thinking to myself, outloud to Dr. Wayne and Ashley, really that's all he could see, crazy!! So the Doc did his exam and we searched high and low and by the grace of GOD we were able to find him a pair of these older glasses. The Driver could actually see the entire chart after getting his old but new glasses, as we were giving the glasses to him we noticed the glasses were dirty! So we went to clean the glasses up and we used what someone said to use and that stuff would work great, NOT the glasses fogged up and we tried to clean the glasses over and over, they were not cleaning up and the driver and everyone at this point is waiting to get a picture with us and wanting to show off their new glasses. We were scambling to fing something, anything at this point, we found some hidden cleaner and finally the glasses were clean. The whole time we didn't have the heart to tell the driver we just messed up his new glasses and thank God we didn't because he left with his glasses and the nurse who came with him was so happy he could see behind the wheel, because no one knew his eyes were messed up from his group, except his crazy, scary, driving...
Thats it for now....we are falling asleep and have to be up at the crack of dawn....Ashley has asked to be baptized in the ocean in the morning before we leave...
We are getting sad about our trip ending so soon, but sat tonight talking about our trip in May!!
Love you all....pray for safe travels
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