Heat, High Humidity, Heavy Rain. Day after day. Don’t you want to come down??
Our construction project – the water tower building – had been held up for awhile due to unavailability of blocks. Now it is moving very slowly due to the rain. Every day! And this is just the start of the rainy season. This rainy season has been predicted to be a very difficult one. Not what Haiti needs right now! Enough rain for the crops is all we need.
Already this year the HATS mission has been flooded. Yikes. Yesterday the bottom part of the main compound where we live was flooded. We had to keep our eyes on our youngest kids so they would not fall in.
The school compound fared even worse. The whole school yard looked like a lake. When I checked it out it was up past my knees. I went back again a little later with Ti Luc and the older kids so they could experience it. It had receded a little but experience it they did. They jumped in that brown dirty water, jumped around and even went swimming. Ti Luc wanted in too so Vladimy held him for me. Being in it once was enough for me. I had walked through the water to the wall enclosing the school to check the water level in the drainage ditch and the canal outside the compound. I climbed upon the ledge at the bottom of the wall to look outside but quickly descended again, almost falling into the water. Why? I think every cockroach, ant, spider and all other variety of bugs in Haiti were on that wall. They wanted to save themselves. I contemplated for a couple of seconds which was worse – being covered with all those horrible creepy crawlies or falling in that very dirty water. The water won out.
Sunday, May 30th was Mother’s Day in Haiti. My little ones all came early a.m. with flowers they picked in my yard and told me they loved me. How sweet it was!!!
I am falling asleep at the computer so there is a message in that. Working late every night and getting back up to work between 3:30 and 4:15 a.m. is taking its toll on me. Am going to give in and go join Ti Luc in our damp tents. It rained earlier today so our mattresses should not be wet, but damp they will be.
Blessings everyone.
~Karen
(NOTE: Due to the blog migration to WordPress in 2016, sadly the pictures in this post were lost.)
