19 August 2011

Bonjou from Haiti, where we have projects aplenty!

the last few days have been good ones here in Grand Goave. we finished painting the school/church building up at St. Etienne on Tuesday [Lex posted pictures on Facebook], and have spent the last three days [Wednesday, Thursday, and today] at the main MOHI school/church compound, working on Renee's new office there [adjacent to the church pavilion, with windows facing the school construction], and finishing painting the depot building. the guys have been hard at work putting in windows and a ceiling in the office - which is not as easy as it sounds, because of course, this is Haiti, and nothing is exactly square or straight. pretty close, but not quite. the electricians were working on installing light fixtures yesterday as well. we have some insulation for the top edges where the walls meet the roof [above the ceiling], but not enough for all the walls, so once that is figured out, we'll hopefully be able to work on hanging the plywood [instead of drywall] for the interior walls. While some were working on the office, the rest of the team was out in the hot sun finishing painting the yellow on the depot building and touching up all of the dark brown trim too. the yellow and brown on the depot was finished yesterday, and today we painted the outside of the new office [yellow and brown of course, to match everything else], as well as starting to paint the depot doors and window bars white. the boys have gotten quite a bit more done on the office too, although it's been a little bit of a slow process. the electricians were working in there today too, but i'm not sure exactly where things stand currently. i do know, however, that they cut out about 20 feet of wire that ran from everything up front to the sound booth in the back of the church, so the outlets up front [and most likely the lights and sounds equipment and such] don't have power. whoops. i'm sure that situation will get solved one way or another here soon.

seth organized a soccer game with some of the village kids from Militone [the area near the beach property] for tonight, so we're headed back now for that. the goal for tomorrow is to try to get the projects at the school finished as much as possible before the team leaves early sunday morning.

that's the nuts and bolts of what we've been up to this week. another post to come soon about non-construction related thoughts...

to Him be the Glory!