On top of the Petit Bwa Mountain!
Today's Plans:
Wake up at 4:00 am (yikes!), pack up the Love Bundles (care packages), and hike the 3 miles and 3,000 feet to a village, and distribute the Love Bundles. We'll then back to the village, and do some painting, put together some water filtration buckets, and build some benches.
We soon found out that plans continue to change quickly around here...
Loading up the mules with the Love Bundles took awhile, but still, we were pretty much on time. None of us realized how utterly exhausting it was to hike 3 miles up hill on very rough terrain. Some were able to do it without much effort (mainly the Haitian people with baskets on their heads!). We finally made it about 2-1/2 hours later.
When we arrived in the village, it was the most breathtaking views you could ever imagine.
We found the people to be much different than in the village we were staying in. These people were friendly, quiet, peaceful and respectful.
After unloading the mules, they turned around and went back down the mountain to re-fill their packs on their mules! Simply amazing! We handed out the bundles to every student at the school (about 250), including the 9 teachers.
We met the local pastor and voodoo priest. We actually got a tour of his house and where he practices his voodoo. Very interesting! Our plan was to leave about 9:30am from the village, but we got delayed and finally started down about 12:00pm. Unfortunately most of us were without water by the time we were halfway down, so some of us experienced heat exhaustion. All are okay now, but it was pretty scary.
When we recovered from our big adventure, we began building school benches and painting the school director's office (small building next to the school). It was an adventurous day that none of us will forget!
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