Haiti Team #1:Day 4

The sun was shining today, what a beautiful creation God has made. The day started with a good breakfast of scrambled eggs, bread, peanut butter, jelly and bananas.

We got to the work site with the high hopes of getting the floor in the artisans room leveled and the tile started. Dave, Darryl, and Jaime were tasked with that. Unfortunately, we did not have all the correct materials so we tried a couple of different things to make it work and just could not get the tile to stick to the floor... so we did the two steps back thing. We are going to wait until the correct materials show up for that project. Tom and Odlin were tasked with building door frames for the offices. It sounds like an easy task at home. Well, it's no easy task when you don't have the easy convenience of a table saw, nail gun, and chop saw. Tom was able to pull it off and of course it looked great when he got done. After the floor didn't work out for Dave, Darryl, and Jaime we started putting the stucco on the outside of the building again. I think we are starting to get it down. Doug didn't say "well we can come back and put a second coat on it".

The Merlet Center is a buzz of activity these days. There is a crew finishing up the soffits and fascia, two crews putting stucco on the outside, James (Paul's son) was finishing the Styrofoam walls in the internet cafe so they can be sprayed with cement. There was also a cement spraying crew in another office and yet another crew was doing the finish coat of cement on other offices. There were a few artisans there yesterday cleaning the rest of the building,  sweeping and hauling off all the trash. 

Pastor Paul's house is also a busy place with crews finishing up the stucco on the walls for the second story and another crew working on the dining area. It looks like they may be getting the roof on it soon.

After dinner everyone got cleaned up and then we went down to John Baptiste's house and met his parents and hung out for awhile in there dining area, talking about school, beer, fishing, and moto rides. That was fun.  Then it was relax for awhile and off to bed.