Last Morning in Camp Perrin

It is Sunday. Brian led us in a brief lovely worship service this morning. He jokingly said it was mandatory attendance for everyone with a PA drivers license. Akeisha joined us anyway. The worship in this place and knowing it is our last day here moved moved me to tears.

Decorating for this afternoon's celebration

Rick gets a hug

Last night everyone was happy but tired when all was done for the day. We were all either in bed or getting ready for bed when we were summoned to the dining room - even the presene of the ones already asleep was demanded. So we all gathered at 10:30 pm to find that ANOTHER delicious hot meal had been prepared for us. Apparently it is a custom on Saturday night, because people stay us late and sleep in on Sunday. The custom is called Fritay (pronounced free-tie). We really enjoyed the goat and the fellowship, then brushed our teeth again and went back to bed!

Just to let you know, we will be leaving Camp Perrin this afternoon and will spend the night in Torbeck. I will not have internet access in Torbeck. We will spend the morning on Monday scouting other potential sites in the Torbeck area. From there we will go on to Port au Prince where we will spend our last night at Eucalyptus House and fly to Pittsburgh on Tuesday. I will post pictures of the celebration whenever I have internet access again.

Random thoughts. Water for hand washing is not always available, so antibacterial liquid is ubiquitous. Akeisha has gotten us started calling it "Cootie Lotion".

"Cootie Lotion"

"I've got to get goat out from between my teeth" is not something you hear very often in Pittsburgh.

A cold prestige at the end of the day is a wonderful thing. And a cold "spit" bath from a basin or a cold shower doesn't feel nearly so shocking when it's 90+ degrees most of the day.