Today was really the last day for everyone on the trip. Tomorrow the first one leaves around 10am. Then the group gets on a plane at 5pm. But I am so blessed because get to stay behind with Jen Musa who arrives at 4:30pm tomorrow. Her and our small group will be doing an art project with the kids in Grande Saline, working with the computers, checking on the water filtration system, visiting pastor Vincent's kids, going to Mother Teresa's children's hospital, and visiting Dr. Ken at his new clinic. The first part of the trip was geared towards medical missions. And this part will be more of the hands on working with the kids and teaching. This is more of what I did on our last trip. I am not very involved in anything in the medical field so a lot of that part of the work was new to me.
I am really going to miss everyone I was with for the first six days. I would say I love them all. I learned from them as I worked with them. We had fun and we laughed a lot. And we really did great things in the short time we were all here together.
Today we started our day at Mother Teresa's home for the dying. I went to play with children while others went in with the older ladies to paint nails, apply lotion, and pray with them. We gave out toys to the kids, painted nails, and kicked around a ball. No one got their hair braided this time though so no thug life for me.
We went home around 1 and got cleaned up to go to the orphanage. We went with more toys so we ended up playing card games, flying kites, coloring, jumping rope, and of course playing soccer. I spent some time as goalie and a little time on defense. I was always on the winning team. Lol those children can really play their futball.
I got a lot of great pictures of the day thanks to the kids sharing my phone to take photos. I also got some more great pictures of the kids I spent the most time with. The goodbyes are always hard especially when they don't know the next time they will see each other. But thankfully I will be there again Tuesday to say goodbye.
I do miss some little things about home but there are many things I would give up to spend more time here serving in Haiti. Tomorrow we are going on another visit to the children's hospital and then everyone else is going home. So ta-ta for now!
Love has no borders,
- Rachel Martha
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