Hi! Josie here! I'm going to tell you guys about my perspective of our adventures on Friday.
After breakfast, we went to the Mass Grave: a site that holds thousands of souls set to rest together due to a replete amount of casualties after the earthquake in 2010. The emotions were overwhelming while standing on the memorial being built on top of this gravesite. Many people that I have talked to in Haiti were personally affected by it in many ways mentally spiritually, and emotionally; knowing this made this visit very special to me and I was able to send prayers to the names of people who were in great need; I have met many Haitians that have asked me to pray for their family members who have passed because of this great tragedy of their lives.
After the mass grave, the group visited Yolti's, a Haitian restaurant that we have visited earlier in the week. Yolti is very proud to have us and is extremely hospitable every time we visit; she takes great pride in her restaurant. The menu included fish, beef, and chicken with picklies: pickled onions and peppers, beets, and boiled plantains with mango juice.
It is so reassuring knowing that we are giving back to Haitians and we experience firsthand the impact that we make on their lives. Such was also with Rosie's, a boutique that helps Haitian women to be entrepreneurs, something that I was extremely proud to support. We visited that next; I am sure you will see gifts coming home from there!
Since we had extra time after going to Rosie's, we went back to Victory Bible Church to help finish painting the back that we had started earlier in the week and also to finish installing the playground. This was the highlight of the days of most everyone with me because when we installed the playground, the guides with us, all in their late twenties, were SO excited. Tyson, our 28-year-old driver of Big Blue, our truck we all ride in, was having the time of his life swinging and riding on the merry-go-round. The joy on his face always will be remembered when he clutched on to the swings and laughed the hardest I have seen him this whole trip. Just imagine how happy the kids will be when they see it installed the first day of school! The teachers will have a very hard time getting them to pay attention. Every ounce of work put into fundraising was immediately worth it when I saw that smile.
After dinner, a couple of us started talking to the security guard of Bel Fle named Jean Wincelot who is going to the university of Haiti to become a lawyer. When we started talking to him more, he opened up; Leah and I taught him English, he taught us French with some tattered books he had.
We are headed to the airport and Ms. Bubb is reclaiming her computer. Orevwa!
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