Motorcycle adventures

Yesterday was my day to learn how to ride a motorbike. These are the things we do on our days off on a Sunday...

Some of you know I have wanted to learn for a while and have always meant to take the course at home but never got around to it before moving to Haiti (right Tracy?). Well I wait no longer!

Through a mission friend Laurens has got a couple bikes that he uses to toot around the mission. I had one small lesson with Laurens previous but yesterday I had time to learn and practice.

As many of you know, I like to tackle things head on so I figure let's learn how to ride a motorbike in Haiti, on the rocks (some of them boulder's actually), down/up a mountain hill with a lot of corners! Laurens assures me that if I can learn on this, then when I learn a bike in Canada it will be a piece of cake :)

My ATV driving years have helped. I only fell once. OK I was getting the hang of letting out the clutch and giving it gas in first gear and for the most part only stalled it. It was when I decided to rectify that and give it more gas (too much) that it leapt from me and I did a graceful tumble off. Graceful it may have originally felt but the landing on pointed rocks and unforgiving ground did NOT feel good. Bruised left hip, left hand, left knee and right elbow.......not bad!

After my tumble it was try, try again. I was able to drive the rough terrain quite a bit and started to get used to the bike. When I felt that my clutch hand could go no further, Laurens told me to ride it home. For those of you who have been here you know that riding it home from the hospital means riding it up a very steep, long rocky road with huge gutters.... then at the top, it means turning a corner on loose gravel, big rocks, and in the middle of a gutter. No problem I thought, just scrape me off the ground when you get there.

With the security guards and orphanage kids cheering me along the way, I made it all the way to the top and brought it to the perfect stop at home. I have a long way to go but am off to a good start ;) Another great day in Haiti.

Cheryl

Haiti Documentary

Hey Haiti supporters,

Tomorrow night is the scheduled time for the Haiti documentary one year after the quake on CHCH news. It will air at 10pm on CHCH and then posted to their website soon after. There will be coverage of both Mission of Hope and us among others. We hope you enjoy it! You will all see it before us as we do not have Canadian TV and we can not download videos easily so let us know if it was good :)

God Bless and thanks to all who are still helping us with our efforts for the Lord in Haiti.


Cheryl and Laurens