CAD and updates

OK so what have you all been doing up there in Canada to the Canadian dollar!!! It is funny, when we lived at home, watching the Canadian dollar vs the US dollar was not a favorite pastime of ours. Now, however, dependent on the body of Christ who are partnering with us back home we are watching in dismay! We know however that God will provide that which we need.

Things are going good here. Tomorrow all of the kids from the Good Samaritan orphanage are going to a new home in Cabaret. School started Monday here in Haiti so by next week I think there will be some resemblance to a regular routine starting up. We are busy working during the day and working on painting and cleaning our house in the afternoon/evenings. The kids were so tired today 2 fell asleep before showers! Only Grayden survived.

Laurens is happy that his office is getting cleaned out and almost ready for use! He will have an office next to the other men that work in construction and oversee the vehicles and parts of the site. He is working on getting to know them (he is the only North American) and Creole. He is finding that he is really good at remembering his nouns in French. This only backfires when it is a word that they totally do not use in Creole. You know when you get the blank stare that you just said something terribly wrong and you don't make sense at all! :)

I am seeing a bit of how big my job is going to be. Currently we have a Haitian doctor running the admin of the hospital as the hospital opened about 8 weeks before I got here. The hospital team is doing a fantastic job, but my role right now is to help facilitate them in order to make things more efficient in admin. and to organize things a bit. I had a great meeting with the Haitian Admin. and we are getting along fantastic so far. (This is a big deal here because he is a) man, b) a doctor and c) has been in charge of the hospital. In Haiti, this could mean he would not want to take suggestions from a woman. However, He couldn't be more friendly, receptive and open to my authority than he has been so far. God is good.) When things are in place, then I will start to concentrate on medical/chiropractic outreach clinics and community health programming. I am just waiting for my office to be finished and then I will be more productive "in house". 

Our kids teacher had her birthday on Wednesday and we all surprised her with a day off and she went on an out-trip for the day. We found some cake mix and Rachel, myself and the kids made her a cake and a card. She was very surprised! It was great.

This weekend the Canadians here (7 of us total) are going to have a thanksgiving meal together. We hope you all have a great Thanksgiving with family and friends. Please pray for those people in Haiti who do not have enough to eat this weekend.

Good night!

p.s. Happy birthday A.J.