WEEK IN REVIEW FEB 7-13

Our construction team arrived safely in  PAP Haiti on Monday  the 7th.   We were picked up at the airport and traveled to Puis Sales which became our home base. Our excellent Haitian cook served us breakfast and our evening meal here each day.  We had comfortable sleeping quarters and showers-----COLD ones!   Each day we traveled by van to the construction site where we worked at putting a roof on a two story church/school building.  The first day we arrived at the work site to discover that we were missing nails and some of our lumber.  It arrived later in the day and we were able to build the rafters that day.  We worked at this site all week, working on the roof and making benches for the students.  We were not able to complete the project entirely, but did get the roof nearly half tinned.  This area was a mountainous area---beautiful to look at but here you could learn the meaning of "rough roads"!! 
On Sunday we traveled to Bonne Fin Haiti where we ate dinner with Sheila at the guest house next to Hospital Lumiere.  Sheila gave us a tour of the hospital and the grounds and we left for PAP about noon on Monday.  Monday night we stayed at a guest house that Eris kindly arranged for us.  Tuesday the construction team went to the airport and waited for their plane to arrive from Miami.  It was late arriving because it was late leaving Miami.  I anxiously awaited the arrival of my "travel challenged" wife!!  Immigration baggage claim and customs behind us, we left the airport in the able "hands" of Wilson and Sadrach who took us to the bus station.  This "station" is one SMALL, HOT room with about 15 straight back chairs in it and a desk where you purchase your tickets.  Sadrach volunteered to ride to bus to Cavillion with us. His presence was much appreciated!  The lady who took our tickets took one look at me and decided that I would sit in the back seat (it is larger)  :-)   The bus left the station at 1:15 instead of the scheduled 12:30.  It was slow going through PAP--lots of traffic!!  It is amazing to see the amount of clean-up and rebuilding that is taking place in PAP when you consider that practically all of this work is done BY HAND.  Crushing of discarded concrete block and stones used in building were being crushed by someone sitting on the pile of debris with a sledge hammer.   About 2 hours into our trip we stopped for a potty stop----- well---no potty, but.......you get the picture!  That lasted about 40 minutes and Sadrach told us later that it had something to do with men on motercyles with guns and the police not letting us go on!  It was an advantage not to know what was happening!!  We arrived safely in Cavillion,(PRAISE GOD) where Sheila met us , accompanied by Dr. Adele and Dr. Rudy.  Dr. Rudy was also traveling to Bonne Fin but couldn't get there by his earlier motercycle taxi as it was pouring rain. Our bus trip totaled about five hours followed by another BUMPY ride up the mountain with Sheila.  We spent the morning working in the pharmacy---doing a little "inventory" and attempting to stay out of Ada and Sheila's way!