Days 3 and 4 for St Louis in DR
Day 3
Off to Augra Negra again to do our 2nd day of our build. Half the group jumped right back into action while the other half enjoyed interacting with the children, playing tag, singing songs, skipping, playing catch, coloring and painting nails. After so much playing it was time for refreshment. We handed out water and suckers to everyone. The craziest thing was to experience the excitement and happiness the community has when we can look to our right and see a garbage dump and garbage filled river and a shack as a house, with the shack hanging over the river bank, which means the family is on the verge of losing their home. After lunch the two groups switched, so one group played with the kids and the other group worked on the houses mixing & hauling “cemento” for the whole afternoon. We were supposed to go for a movie night at the first village of “La union” to watch Madagascar, but it was looking like rain, so it was cancelled to Monday night instead. So we went for ice cream and did a bit of shopping on the way back. Corina tried bartering, but came back empty handed, we’ll have to go back again to see if she can get her price. LOL. We came across a ball game on our way back, so we stopped, that was very cool. We had our picture taken with one team named “Amigos de Canada”, they were sponsored by a couple from Winnipeg.
Day 4
WORK DAY AT THE GARBAGE DUMP!
This is the day that was the most life changing for ALL OF US! We partnered up with a Haitian friend & helped them to fill a very large bag to make them .50 to .75 cents a bag. The items that they wanted us to pick up were plastic bags and plastic bottles. They also took anything that they could use, like underwear, shirts, pants and some of us even witnessed them picking food and eating it. That was a hard one to take! YOU CAN’T IMAGINE WHAT WE ALL WALKED THROUGH. Later that afternoon we went for a hike to the waterfalls, which was a very refreshing afternoon after our challenging morning. We walked through sooooo much mud and walked through streams of water to get to the waterfall. After supper some of the girls had their hair braided. Michelle and Reanne got extensions too. VERY FUNNY LOOKING. LOL.
WE ALWAYS END OUR DAY WITH A LOT OF LAUGHS! MICHELLE IS KIND OF CRAZY. LOL. CORRINA HASN’T STOPPED LAUGHING. HAHA.
P.S.- OH YA AND BY THE WAY THE KIDS ARE DOING A FANTASTIC JOB THIS WEEK HERE IN THE DR.
Brooklyn and Reanne