This morning after breakfast we headed back to the hospital for checkups again. I started a project of repairing wheel chairs and then went to put the spare tire back on the Toyota. But the tire they said was ready was in 6 pieces on the shop floor so I repaired a gate and went back for it. When I went back there was a Haitian standing on the tire asking me how much I was going to pay him to help me put it on. I told him I just came for the tire and when I turned around there were 2 others asking for payment to help me. How many does it take to put a spare tire back under a truck?? Then Sheila asked me to take Joe, the maintenance man down to the reservoir to clean some seaweed out...quite the road. When we got there 3 other natives joined us (It amazes me. They were all walking the mountain trails and we were driving, but we all arrived the same time??) Two of them slid down the bank into the water and started swimming the seaweed out. They decided to come back in the morning to do some more when the water level is lower.
About 9:00 Joe informed us that the power was going to go out around 2 pm and back on at 6 pm for the evening lights, but it was off by 10:30 already. 2 or 10:30, whats the difference? The team had just finished a surgery so it was no big deal and the generator came on fairly soon so they could continue.
Oh, how cute. There is a 5" lizard on the ceiling above me and he just ate a misquito, nice. Glad he likes them.
We had pumpkin soup for lunch. It was pretty good. Bethann said that she didn't really like the first meal, but now she likes pretty much everything we had so she's not sure what changed :-) Maybe she got hungry.
There was a change of pace this afternoon. We went to a funeral service of one of the former hospital employees. He worked there more than 30 years and his wife still does. It was fairly large (maybe 500). We only stayed maybe 1/2 hour of the 2 hour service and went back to the guest house roof to read Psalm 39 (in English) that they read at the funeral, but it started to sprinkle. We all quickly grabbed the laundry and ran it inside. Then Noah and Max arrived back from the funeral so we got Jennifer from PT (she was the only one who worked the afternoon) and drove down to the market, which is every Wednesday. It was the tail end, so we didn't end up getting out much, but was still interesting. On the way back to the guest house, we passed the funeral procession on the way to the cemetery.
When we got back, we decided to take a hike up "Doctor's Mountain", which is about a 15 minute walk behind the compound. Beautiful scenery.
After that, the midwest girls sang several songs on the porch while Noah, Ruben, Max & Jennifer went to visit one of the translators mother (who had carpel tunnel surgery before) and then on to Jimmy's house to see his honey bees, etc.
For the evening meal, we had pizza (thick Haitian style) and cole slaw, fruit... Then Noah, Ruben, Rudolph & Jennifer went back to the hosp. for evening rounds and the rest of us had an hour bible study on Psalm 39 in the living room before we went up and helped a little and checked email.
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