Day 3 was good. Kim (one of the other volunteers) and I got to "clean house". Every day, two volunteers get housekeeping duty in the morning. This includes lovely things like cleaning the bathroom (6 toilets for 60 people - just let your imagination run wild), burning trash, including the toilet paper that everyone uses as we can not flush any paper down the toilet. And let us not forget cleaning the kitchen, including finding 2 cockroaches in the sink (both dead thank god) and sprinkling roach killer on the baby roachs - I am a baby killer!!!!!! Please don't think less of me.
Then in the afternoon, we joined the team that was working on School 12 (this is where Michel was). School 12 was actually finished a while ago but some problems started manifesting in the concrete skin so we were fixing that.
After work, it was off to PAP (Port au Prince) in a lovely air conditioned car to go to Tante Mary's for the weekend. It was a wonderful respite as she has running water, a working shower and a king size bed for us. ASIDE: Michel and I are sleeping in separate bunks at the base and I miss having intimate (get your mind out of the gutter!) moments just spooning and talking freely about things.
This past weekend was a large artisan's fair (200 artisans) in PAP and both Tante Mary and her son, Garry, were in it. We spent 6 hours looking at art and hanging with family. Garry, Genevieve (his wife) and Gaeton (his son) took us out to dinner at a nice restaurant where I had deep fried Acra for the first time and Lambe (conch). The food was very good and the company was even better!
Today, we relaxed quite a bit and then went to say goodbye to the family at the fair and are now back on base - definitely missing the amenities!
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