Haiti Team #1: Day 11

Our last day in Haiti, and we have a lot of work we want to get done before we leave, so after breakfast to work we went. Tom and Odlin worked part of the day on the door frames. Jaime was painting planters for the porch of the Merlet Center. Dave, Darryl, and Ulrick worked on painting the west end and the south side of the lower level of the building. We got as far as the stucco was done. 

Jaime went and gave a class on photography at about 4:30 and took Ulrick with her, the rest of us started laying out where the new clinic will be with Odlin as our translator. He did a great job. So the clinic is laid out and will be just to the west and just to the south of the Merlet Center. The workers finished up the dining area enough for us to eat dinner in it.  Paul was very excited. He had come up with a name for it and wanted us to baptize it. We baptized it with the name "mizak Thanksgiving table" and the ladies had cooked a feast for dinner, complete with a cake. 

After dinner everyone showered and started packing and along came a down pour of rain, so that cut short all the good buys from the area people that show up on the porch. The trip has been very rewarding in that we got a lot of work done.  We also were the first people to shop the artisans boutique in the new Merlet Center and we were the first team to eat under the roof of the new dining area. 

The workers at Paul's house are working hard to get the upstairs done.  They have the roof on it and are tiling the bathrooms. That area should be ready for the next team that comes at the end of the month. We will be up at 4 am to get the ride down the mountain for the trip home. We will be arriving in Concord, MI at about 1 am on Wednesday morning. That will make for a long day. Not sure if I will be doing a blog for the last day as I will be busy catching up on all the work at home that has not got done since I left. So this blog thing has been fun, but I hope the next time I go on a mission trip Melany can come with me and I can talk her into doing the blog again. Thanks for reading.