TGIF

 A new volunteer arrived last night named Kerin, Erin with a K is how she introduced herself. Great girl from South Carolina and she is leaving the same day we are, which I couldn't tell you when that is if I tried. However, we made it through our first teaching week, barely. Thank God for dance party Fridays! We ate the Alcindor special breakfast. While making lunch we pestered him to help us write down all the Creole phrases he has taught us so far. Of course I misspelled all of them and used the French spelling, so Alcindor took it upon himself to write them in my little notebook. After our "lesson" we fed the sweet ones and moved them down to the porch for the weekly dance party. We danced our skin off and swung kids around! We played and laughed and chanted and mumbled. It definitely is one dance party for the record books, gives Wendy's '80's dance party a run for its money. After we busted more than just a move, we played some darts. My team: Ashleigh, Gary, myself, Frank Ely, and KC all won! We won a soda which was so refreshing and didn't taste fake. It used the real sugar! It was so tangy to my mouth that my taste buds had their own dance party. Alcindor to the rescue: dumplings in black bean juice (my favorite), spinach (Ashleigh's favorite), rice (Haiti's favorite), and fish sauce (Alcindor's favorite). We got so much that we had dinner for the night. Living here for just a week has really made me ration my food a lot more. I really appreciate every bit of whatever I am eating. Ashleigh and I are both guilty of being on hands and knees looking for the crumbs of a Snickers bar and of trail mix. Leave no morsel behind. We did our mass feeding and moved onto ball toss and chasing boys out of the "restricted area" (Zel's, the dog, designated pooping patio). We then got ready to do round two of Insanity, PURE CARDIO! Before getting too insane we dished up the dinners, we even got brave and tried it out. Tastes like sugar so we spooned ourselves up some La Boule and saved it for breakfast! Sugar for breakfast will be a nice change of pace. It was about that time for Shawn T to kick our butts into shape. Since we had a new participant, Erin with a K, we had to do our work-out in the living room area. Wasn't bad until we had to do the push-ups. We kinda just sprawled out on the tiles and let the cold, bug covered tile floor cool us off. Thanks for another get sweat bath Shawn T. A nice freezing shower was in our future and goosebumps to go with it. I shaved and I hope that will get rid of my stench but I won't get my hopes up. 

Josephine drumming away

Marhitza and me Mashing Potatos