Grand Goave

Well, I'm back from Grand Goave. It was a really refreshing weekend, and it turns out that it's right on the ocean, so I got to go to the beach! Man, this country is so incredibly beautiful!
Grand Goave is sortof out in the country and definitely has more of a country feel to it, so I felt even more at home there, than I've felt here in Petionville. The entire town, of Grand Goave, has been out of power since last Tuesday, and I got there at night, so I could hardly even see anything because it was so dark inside the house. It was so incredible hot there... much hotter than up here in the mountains... and really humid too! I slept on a mat on the kitchen floor.... well at least I tried to sleep. The lady next door has like ten dogs that were extremely loud all night long... as were all the cats and chickens. No rats though, so we slept with all the doors open. I was very glad for that because we had no fans, since the power was out! I finally drifted of to sleep sometime in the early morning, and when I woke up, there was a chicken next to my bed. I guess he'd decided to come in the open door. So we shooed him out and a few minutes later another one came in. Let's just say it was quite a greeting when I woke up! I slept much better the second night, probably because I was so tired from not sleeping the night before! There was a Haitian girl there who offered to do my hair in braids. So, the second night I was there, we had the generator on for a bit and she started to braid my hair. We had to do the last half of my hair with only a flashlight for light though, because the generator cut out again. Man, life here is never boring! You just never know what's going to happen next!
As much fun as the weekend was, it was also very spiritually enriching. The church that I attended there was very spirit-filled and the people are definitely people of God. How rewarding it is to worship God with people in another language! The worship team had taken a lot of songs I knew in English and translated them into Creol, and I really enjoyed that. The people at the church were all sooo nice and welcoming. They all just treated me like a family member and everyone was sad that my visit was so short and asked me if I'm coming back. All I could say was that I don't know.
Well, that's the brief update on the time I spent in Grand Goave this weekend. Wish you all could have been there to share all my fun experiences with me!