Haiti - Post #2

The last post gave you a run down of our trip. This one is just going to be some of my favorite pictures from the trip.

Pretty flower:-) Johnny took this one.

Me with Dala. Her aunt works at the rectory, and she was there most of the time we were. I'm not sure how old she is, but she was very well behaved.

Children sitting in the chapel at St. Georges waiting for us to come inn and finish Mass. There was music and singing going on when I took this picture.

The view from St. Georges chapel

These kids were on their lunch break. They were standing in the gate checking us out as we stood in the schoolyard over at the High School.

Schilly - our driver extraordinaire and translator. He is also an architect. He comes to the States often as some of his family has moved here. He is one of 17 children - 8 brothers and 8 sisters.

This guy showed up on Saturday, our 2nd day at the rectory. We wondered if we would be eating him while we were there, but he was still there when we left:-)

We freaked this kid out. We were probably the first white people he had ever seen. He started crying, and cried the whole time we were in that classroom. It was the preschool section, and he was probably about 3 years old.

This little girl had the biggest smile, and kept smiling like that the whole time we visited her class. I snapped this picture after taking a larger group picture. I just zoomed in. She didn't realize I was taking a picture of her.

I took this one while visiting the preschool too. I just thought it was cute. Notice the girl over her left shoulder... peeking at us over her shoulder out of the corner of her eyes.

This is the nun who runs the clinic. She was standing in the window watching the kids on their lunch break while we visited at the high school. The clinic is in the same building as the high school.

We think the girl giving the thumbs up is John's new girlfriend. As we were leaving the school yard, she ran up and linked her arm through John's, and called him her boyfriend:-)

This little guy was out in the schoolyard at the High School. He was with a few women who were there to sell things (mostly candy it appeared) to the kids on their lunch break.

Isn't she adorable! The preschoolers were on their way back to their classrooms after lunch when we visited the Sisters' school. She stopped to check us out and John snapped a picture.

These kids were learning to write. I believe these kids were in the 4-year-old room.

The four-year-old class at the Sisters' school.

After lunch, the kids went back to their classroom. This little girl was taking a nap at her table when we visited her classroom. We saw several other kids napping in the younger kids rooms as well.

One of the better shots of the beach taken from the car. We were supposed to go to the beach while we were there, but it rained all day that day, so we didn't get any good shots of the beautiful blue water.

Just thought I'd share some of my favorite photos, and give you a glimpse at what we saw. These were some of the pictures of the beauty of the people and the landscape. Our pictures of the poverty didn't really come out the greatest, but they are still a reminder to us of what we saw.

Sara