Today is Thursday, May 27 2010. This morning we woke up bright an early again for the 5am service. Afterwards we had breakfast and began painting by 7 am. We had a lot of work to do to finish all of the rooms downstairs at the orphanage. We worked non-stop until about noon.
Then at 1:00 Kim, Shirley, Elizabeth, two men from the orphanage and myself went out to run errands... Boy, was this an adventure! What would have been a simple 5 minute Wal*Mart run in the U.S.. took us over 7 hours here just to get rice, beans, water, shelves, and a couple books. We didn't even get everything that we had to get. The streets were so crazy with traffic going in every direction.. We had to bargain for everything with each merchant, which took a very long time. The prices were actually extremely expensive; although I think that was partly because we were Americans. The driver and our "body guard," Pierregi, were stuck shopping with us four girls and we would not let them go back until we got everything we set out to get. We drove them crazy.. It very interesting driving through the streets. We even were able to drive by the palace in Port au Prince and the top half of the structure was falling off because of the earthquake. Kim was saying how it is almost impossible to find anybody here. She told us how we sent a letter to the states and the adress to the orphanage translated 'to near a main street and close to the entrance of the gas station'... haha
We were all very tired when we got back to the orphanage. Although, I immediately had a smile on my face when the kids ran up to the truck to greet us as we got out. Right now I am sitting in a chair as a girl from the orphanage is braiding my hair. I have to be brief tonight because there are many people who want to use the computer.. I'll be back tomorrow!!
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