Clean!

Wow, here I am after a long morning of cleaning. Mom, you think our house gets dirty, you need to come and clean here! After all the bugs going around to all the kids, it was time for a much needed cleaning. It was so nice to have the rooms clean, it finally smells really nice. The balcony was a challenge with 40 little kids crying and screaming while we try to clean everything, trying to keep them from sucking on and drinking the bleach water. but we're done now, and ready for lunch: fried fish with the tails still on, and some dark grayish rice, it will be interesting! Oh, we just discovered its raining here! we may have to take a cool off break and stand in it for a while. Later this afternoon, I'm not sure what we will all choose to do. Its so nice to be comfortable here. It feels like a 2nd home. I have gotten to know many other poeple and lots of children, and I wish I could stay longer. 10 days is way to short of a time to spend here. Yesterday we had the VBS in the morning, it went great, we gave them tons of candy, and it was so cute to see how they all handled finally having something of their own. They sang us a goodbye song and gave us all hugs and kisses. THey don't understand that we're not coming back. ONe of the workers said taht a little by has been counting down the days til monday because he thinks we will continue with VBS then, it kind of breaks my heart. IN the afternoon, we went with the CRC missionaries to Port au Prince to see how the CRC is run in Haiti. iT was very interesting, but I most enjoyed the hours spent stuffed in the car, all 12 of us together. We looked crunched, but once you take a look at all the Haitians they fit in a tap tap, we considered ourselves lucky for all the room we had. It was funny that whenever we saw a white person, we all would get excited and say, hey, someone white is over there, and we all would look to see! That only happened about twice, but the white people sure do stand out here! It meade me see a little what it is like to be a minority. I am getting used to it, but it is an interesting feeling. But now, it is time for me to go and eat, the fish are calling my name (which is utterly impossible since they are headless) but I may as well go give the food a try!
Thanks for all the prayers, still!
Kelly VandenBerg