catching up

God is so good! He has blessed me so richly, in ways I do not deserve...and far beyond what I could ever dream!
Life moves at a very (very very) fast pace for me here. We are always on the go...doing something, but I wouldn't exchange it for anything. And God is faithful to supply our needs..esp. our energy levels! I will admit, I have been completely exhausted the past few evening, and then look at the clock and realize it's only 8:30!

I spent two days this past week at clinic sites. One was with an American doctor, who travels to different Haitian run medical clinics. It was a great experiance really observing his medical exams....I will try to stick my journal from that day on here later, for those of you who care to read about medical cases in Haiti.
I also spent a day at the OMS clinic, working with both Haitian and American nurses and doctors. It was "well-baby day" at the clinic, so I help the nurses with weighing and charting growth patterns. They also do free vaccinations for children under 4 there... so I helped out with that. And yes...I gave a shot! It's something that I have been both looking forward to and dreading since that day in nursing lab... but it was a good experiance, and it went very well. The Haitian nurse was not so thrilled at the idea...which made it all the more intimidating...but she didn't comment- and the American nurse said that means she approves! Praise the Lord! I also spent time that day with a Haitian doctor who was doing general medical exams. That was a priceless experiance, as he took time to really explain to me his process of examination. Maybe some day I can get that journal entry on here as well... right now it's in a notebook- but I am hopefully going to scan it in soon.
On Friday, Cheron and I went into town...and then went out to the orphange to do some cooking! Cheron made salad with the girls for everyone...that is- all 50 of us that were there, while I made cookies for the basketball game we were hosting the next day. I ended up making a HUGE batch of Snickerdoodles... ( 12 cups of sugar,22cups of flour, 16 eggs...it was crazy! Wait till you see the picture...it was an enormous amount of cookies!)
On Saturday 30 children from another orphanage came over for a basket ball game. The older boys at our orphange were determined to beat them...which I can proudly say, they did a good job of! Unfortunately, they beat them so badly that the other boys wouldn't play a second game with them! One of the boys (Daniel) told me that if they had known...they would have let them win the first game, and then beat them!
I got to spend alot of time with the middle aged kids that day. Several of the boys...the ones that are usually getting in trouble...have become really good friends. We played BINGO, took pictures, told lots of stories...and I desperately tried to write my journal! But of course...if I have to choose between spending time with the kids or writing my journals...I ALWAYs hang with the kids!
One more quick story...and then I shall go.... Tuesday morning I got up early to go out to the clinic...and was eating breakfast by myself...and realized how funny my menu really was! Here it was...about 6:30 am, and I was eating spagetti, with very little sauce, but tons of garlic, and was drinking Kool Aid!

Going to grab a quick snack- and then I think we're off to the orphanage! Yeah!