Well yesterday was thanksgiving and just full of blessings. It started out with morning school and we just had a time to talk about thanksgiving and what we should be thankful for. Than for our stations the kids we did an abc dot to dot of a turkey, we made hand print turkeys, the sign language teacher taught the kids thank you and had the cutest little picture of a kids saying thank you and a banner turkey we painted their hands for the feathers a lot of work but so much fun. Also, thanks to Jocelyn and her mom for coming down to take pictures and then helping with these projects.
From there I went to lunch when Nahum came up and we had bought a turkey for the Miriam center and he went to Port de Paix to get it. He had just got back and wanted to show me a picture. He showed me a picture of Kenderson a kid in the Miriam center holding a live turkey. I just did not know what to think, I asked where the turkey was now and he said the kids were playing with it. Well everyone at the table went downstairs to see this and sure enough the kitchen playing with a live turkey and having way too much fun. Then Nahum took it out to show the school kids and then Presendue carried the turkey out, never to be seen alive again. I took a moment to think about how the kids would react to eating that turkey a couple of hours later but it was a fleeting thought, It was time for afternoon school.
Well the afternoon school was nothing close to normal. Will said that he would make another sing a long cd for the kids, we had so many people in the surgical hallway just singing as he recorded. I love that Haitians cannot sing a worship song and not be affected by it. It was an unforgettable time. Then, when the cd was done they sang like a parade all the way to the classroom and just kept singing the kids had so much fun.
Well, then school was over and it was time for turkey, the cook fried it in this really good seasoning it was so good and I don’t feel like anyone gave a second thought about, wow we were just playing with this poor thing and now it is food. I guess that is thanksgiving in Haiti for you.
Took a couple of the kids down to aquaponics and they played in the tanks for a while, than it was time for dinner it was pretty much an american thanksgiving meal, I was especially thankful to be sitting with my mission family and the teenage orphans who are living here now.
What a great day!!!!
I will add a picture to this blog when I get home.
