Last Day of Clinic

So my third degree burns(ok, maybe only 2nd) have finally set in from last week's 10+ hour truck drive back into Port au Prince. You've never felt the sun beating down on you until you have had that experience in Haiti. So I just came back from spending the evening with the Miami group who is preparing to leave on Sunday. I still cannot believe that yet another team will now have come and went already. Today was the last day of clinic and we saw over 250 people collectively. This village was set East of Port au Prince and again today we encountered quite a few malnurished children, little ones who barely had the energy to wake from their sleeping. We can give their mothers a supply of food but it will
only last so long. Scabies was another huge plague for this village.

It is difficult to see another group preparing to return home because you sort of become attached after spending so much time together. But it will all work out because that just means I should have that much more time to spend getting to know the children here. Tonight was awesome I got to play a little soccer with three of the older kids, Castella, David, and Jeremy (not the one from the other day's post). Boys won, atleast until the soon to be rematch. I will say playing in a skirt definitely made it more challenging. Oh and my former basketball skills are so not what they used to be as evident from yesterday's face off. Stay tuned for more on the sports front! For those of you that know me, you know that this is right up my alley. All I need now is to get a volleyball match in the works! But the kids here are awesome I am finally getting to know a few of them. It was difficult at first because there are about a hundred and fifteen kids at this orphanage and it was quite overwhelming at first. I can't wait to spend more time here!!! I will try to get some photos of these kids up soon.

I cannot wait to share all of these photos with you all when I get home! I have met so many amazing and interesting people along this journey whose faces I shall never forget. The photo I have posted with today's entry is a portrait of a sweet little lady from Tuesday's clinic who really knew how to work the camera. This photo is by far one of my favorites from the trip thus far.

Oh and I forgot to share my close call incident from yesteday. I found a computer to which I could connect my camera and my external harddrive (to backup all 3000 photos asap) to and one memory card in particular continually was giving me the "error" "corrupt and unreadable files contained" message. I put the card back in my camera and it said "no image". My heart sank as I tried to recover my 700+ photos from the village of Tionce. And before i went to bed I thought I would try one of my other friend's Mac computers and no joke all the photos were there. Without a doubt it was miraculous and I am so thankful that I will be able to share these pictures from Tionce, the village on the beach.

Endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation. - (Romans 5:4)
- May the Lord be forever building character in us no matter where life leads us.