Ayiti. Day 32.

You may well have noticed a pattern of late...I haven't been able to successfully post one day at a time on here due to all sorts of reasons! So, today's is getting done this afternoon, and is a conglomeration of earlier today, yesterday and a wee bit of the night before.

Let's start with Thursday evening...this was the western sky from the roof in Les Cayes...I think it would have been a great night to have been in Port Salut!

And the next morning there was a brief downpour while the sun was shining, so I headed to the roof again...

A little later we headed to Torbeck and were pleased with the progress of the wall...

As I looked at it, I had the surprising really good feeling know that I had touched many of those rocks in the foundation...

Later in the day we headed east to Carre-four Duclos where Tom preached at a revival service. I took photos, but they only had one working lightbulb (100 watts...) in the church, and I didn't want to use the flash, so the photos are too dark. Today Tom picked up 5 new light bulbs and we will hopefully get them in before tonight's service!

We missed dinner, so on the way home we stopped at a place that Ketura told us about...they serve pizza and wine!

I was still a little nervous about my stomach and eating anything that Leonie hasn't helped to prepare, so I just had a glass of wine and passed on the pizza! And, Tom being the guy that he is and knowing that about 8 of the kids from the orphanage were spending the night in Les Cayes, did this:

Speaking of wonderful husband moments...this morning instead of going to Torbeck, we decided that we would stay in Les Cayes and I would start teaching some of the kids to knit. Not being an advanced knitter myself, the lack of my skill, the language barrier, and the ratio of kids to me was a bit challenging! They were so patient, and they needed to be with me!

Anyways, we soon realized that we had a little issue because I am right handed and 2 of the girls are left handed. One of them decided just to try it "my way," but Sincia needed to learn left handed. I found a video online that shows how to knit left handed, but alas, I still couldn't really help her. Guess which fellow lefty stepped up to the plate, studied the video and practiced for about 2 hours, and then taught Sincia?!

And, if you're a knitter, you will be pleased to know that he has a very nice, even stitch! I told him that he and I can sit and knit together this winter! :)

After about 2.5 hours of relative success, it was time to take a break...for lunch and the girls did some beading and jewelry making. I tried to take a nap, but was unsuccessful. Imagine my surprise when I went back out into the big room and was greeted with eager knitters! In fact, I quickly lost my spot on the bench and they were all very busy...

That was fun! I am leaving them lots of needles and some yarn, but depending on their interest continuing, some future groups might want to bring some cotton yarn with them!

That's it for this afternoon...baptism and revival news tomorrow!