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Nov. 22-28

Since I had been to Internet on Friday I decided to vary my routine and not go last Sat. I stayed home and did some sewing repairs for myself and others. I tided up and had a visit from Judnel. We taught each other some card games.
Sunday I started out at the Haitian church but they came and picked me up and we went to the English church. After that we went to find a Haitian girl that a friend of Suzanne’s is helping. They took her to get some groceries and formula for her baby. Then Suzanne drove us to a village that is funded by Canadians out more in the country. It is appropriately called L’Ascension as it is going up the side of a small mountain. The houses are all cement block and are built in such a way so all the water runs away from them when it rains. The people were very friendly and some little children tried out their English on us. We finished off the day on Internet and David called me.
Monday was back to routine. We continued to practice the butterfly song for the program on Wed. (Mariposa Day in honour of the Mirabal sisters) Spanish lesson in the afternoon and English class in the evening. We finished off by talking about Christmas and since I have so many of the worship team in the class I think we will learn a carol in English. I sang several to see what tunes they recognized and now I will need to get some words typed out for them.
On Wed. I went on Internet at Dream Project and copied and pasted a bunch of words, as I’m such a slow typist. I refined it into a 9 page song book that I then had to put on a memory stick and take to a store where they print a copy and then make photocopies.
Today, Saturday the amazing news is that I have electricity all the time now. They installed an ‘inverter’ which switches over to 4 car batteries when the power goes off. What a difference it will make to the long evenings to be able to read, sew, or work and play on the computer. It’s great… I had it last night There isn’t enough ‘juice’ to run the pump but it means I won’t have to teach my classes in the dark anymore (well they may still be in the dark but at least I can see them).

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  1. AnonymousNovember 28, 2009 at 10:59 PM

    Too cute! (in the dark) What a blessing to have the inverter. It is amazing how much we take for granted here, isn't it?
    Patti

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