The Captain and the Boss are back from an
exciting trip to
St. Marc. I got to drive and of course our armed guard Richard
came as well. No
cruise control allowed on these roads. You go from swerving to
avoid the crazy helmet-less motorcyclists, pedestrians,
potholes, massive speed bumps and animals
and then accelerate to pass an overloaded truck. The drivers
are aggressive and
continual use of horns is mandatory. I loved it!!
Our
route took us past
chaotic traffic jams and markets.
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| Traffic jam and a market |
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| Market area traffic |
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| Keith, you can get us through this |
…….as well as some very lush countryside
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| Overloaded TapTap - public transportation |
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| Countryside between the mission and St. Marc |
The goal of our trip was to take TI-Fi, 12
years old to the doctor.
She was very pleased to be going in the truck on a trip with
Mama and without
the other kids but was a little nervous too.
Dr
Valery was very
nice and we were in and out in no time. Dr. Valery used to
work at the local hospital and Karen found him to be a
competent, caring pediatrician. He moved to St. Marc a few
years ago and has a practice "The Clinic du Sacre Coeur".
Karen finds it more convenient/faster to take the children to
see him. Three stops at pharmacies
and we had the prescriptions and headed back to the ranch.
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| Ti Fi going to St. Marc to see the doctor |
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| Ti Fi a little nervous waiting to see the doctor |
The rest of the day was filled with odd
jobs. I managed to
look busy without really accomplishing anything. (I learned
that trick from the
best – guys like Pearo, Fagner and the master: Heron!)
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| Keith helping anywhere and everywhere |
I’m
still working on
the blackboard for the boy’s house, repairing some benches and
putting together
the new songbooks, etc. etc. Karen was trying to cook, I mean
balance, the books
for last month.
I drafted Moise and JJ to help me move 40
boxes of food for
the school kids’ lunches to the storage depot. HATS had a shipment of food
supplements
donated by Kids against Hunger in the USA. Shipping was paid
by a donation from
HATS friends, in Africa and Montreal; Dr. Olle and Barbara and
Louis. The 40 boxes will last about two weeks and the shipment
should last a year and a half.
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| Moise helping Keith with food for school students |
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| Takes work to feed 300 students five days a week |
No rain today so it will be a hot and noisy
sleep on the
roof.
1 comment:
Good blog Keith, are you getting good at looking like you are busy but not accomplishing anything????
I am quite confident you accomplished a lot! Should I be glad I wasn't in the pan of the truck on your drive to and from Saint Marc?
Hope Ti Fi does well on her new prescription. She looked glad to be on an outing by herself.
Give our love to all the kids and to Germaine and Roselene.
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