First Day Back

It has been a very eventful first day back....can I just say life is full of strange things here!

Today started off pretty normal. I was happy to see everyone and was sorting all the stuff I brought back. A team had just dropped in to learn about our program, so I explained what we are doing and answered questions. They wanted to go see the boys and girls homes so they all piled in their tap-tap and John took them over to see the kids. I went back to sorting medical stuff. When all of a sudden I could hear Dan screaming! I didn't know what he was saying so I went to see what was going on. It seems Uno had run out of the gate, again, but this time Dan was watching him get run over by the tap-tap. As he watched the front wheel go over him he started yelling more so the driver stopped. Only to stop with the back wheel partly on top of Uno. Dan pulled him out and got him back to the house. He was in bad shape for a few hours but seems OK now. We didn't know what to do so we gave him Advil and put antibiotic cream on his wounds. It seems chocolate labs have more than one life.

The power went off today at 9:30 am....at about 4:30 Dan went out to run the generator so we would have power for the night by charging the inverters. The generator was only on for a second when we heard a loud bang. It seems the whole cranck shaft broke off, leaving the fan hanging off to the side and spraying anti-freeze everywhere. It is 6:30 now and the inverter reads 24.2. It crashes at 22.0 - so unless the power comes on early tonight we are not going to have power, which means sleeping without fans and listening to the mosquitoes buzz until midnight when we may or may not get power. Tomorrow will be a whole new adventure in seeing if we can get a repair guy to come to the house and fix the generator. We have not even had the generator for a whole year, so we are praying that the company we got it from honor this by coming and fixing it for free.

Yep, I am back in Haiti!