Today is a school holiday, the feast of Corpus Christi. Schools in Haiti are closed, as are many
businesses. After the children finish
their work, we are going to the beach.
This morning they are washing the outside walls of the house. In Boca Raton we are not faced with a problem
of dirty outside walls because our yards are nicely landscaped, covered with
grass and our children usually go directly from the car into the house. Here, the kids play outside all of the
time. Their shoes and hands are covered
with Bondeau red dirt, which eventually ends up on the walls, both outside and
inside. So, to make the children more
aware of keeping their hands clean (I place a bucket with soap outside the back
door for hand washing), they are washing down the walls.
Breakfast this morning was spaghetti with a light red sauce
and Haitian salami and a small loaf of Haitian bread. The kids love it and so do I, although I had
my usual oatmeal with prunes. Ethela
made lime juice with local limes that grow here in abundance.
This morning Ethela is making peanut butter from locally
grown peanuts. We go through huge
amounts of peanut butter, known as “mamba”.
We’ll use the mamba for sandwiches to eat at the beach, along with
locally grown bananas and juice. There are
12 children and 6 adults going. The
beach is only a few miles from here.
We’ll have to hire motorcycle taxis because Pere Kesner iand the car are in Port au Prince. He is coming later but not before we go to
the beach.
Latest news…just before posting, a report came that the
water is rough today so I changed plans to go to the beach on Saturday. The car will be here to use…no taxi fares!
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