Holes

Knowing the election results could potentially cause issues with work and travel around Port-au-Prince, so we didn't make solid plans today.

Good news though, our Chilean friends whom we met and gave a Spanish CD and brochure while driving back from the work site called today. We are having dinner with them Friday. Another country to add to our list of food sampled from around the world. We asked Kendra why we even bothered to bring so much food from the DR when everyone here from the UN wants to feed us all the time.

This morning we got up early, but then Kendra decided to go pick up Carter as he will be staying with us now and driving back to the DR whenever we go back. He is Haitian, but he lives with his wife and two kids in Santo Domingo, DR now. They went to buy 25 trees with Pastor Vitale (a worker from the H.E.L.P. hospital who had a connection).

Since she was gone for so long that meant that after waking up at 6am we could take a 2 hour nap. Yess.

Kendra got back about 12:45pm and informed us she had a meeting at the land in Croix-de-Bouquets at 1pm (the land is 45 minutes away). That is one thing that is the same between Haitians and Dominicans even though so much else is 100% different...tardiness.

We arrived at the land and dug 4 holes in the afternoon for the pavilion posts. 3.5 feet deep by 18 inches wide. It was hard work in the hot sun. Now we know what Shia LaBeouf felt like in the movie Holes. Kendra ran to a meeting at the UN Log Base with Johan. We decided we were done at hole 4 so we sat in the foam core home to cool off (thank you DFMC!). The sun started to set and we were glad to see Kendra when she pulled up at 6:30pm. The solar lights aren't installed yet so it would have been pitch black pretty quickly with the main road being 2 kilometers of dirty hills away.

Instead of heading home, we decided to call our African UN police officer friend Amaudo. He is really lonely here and only hangs out with his other UN friends, so he calls us often to visit. We decided to take him out to Epidor (like McDonald's but with many more options).  We had pizza and during conversation realized how little English Amaudo actually knows. He did understand my multiple wives question as a follow up from our Sunday night dinner conversation.

At one point Emily commented to Alonda that people must be staring at us because we are so dirty from working and we didn't even get cleaned up. Alonda was sure to remind her they were staring because we are white.  We got home about 8:30pm and the girls played with Alonda and Emily's hair - braiding it every which way and putting their feet up so it felt like a spa.  It was cute.