Day 6

It is unbelievable how much beauty and sadness can reside in the same island.  We began our day early, 4:00 early.  Our plan was to climb Mount Matthew to a village located at the top.  The hike itself was a task.  It felt almost like a straight vertical climb, even though the entire path was switchback turns that zigzagged up the mountain.  The village if possible was even more primitive that some of what we had seen around our compound and Port-Au-Prince.  We sang a few Haitian songs we learned to a group of children that congregated around us.  The children loved it!  After our tour of the school and church we made our way back down to our compound.  We had lunch then visited a resort that was owned by friends of Donald’s.  We paid 10 dollars to go snorkeling and it was unbelievable!  The colors of the coral and the variety of fish were breathtaking.  We had a beautiful dinner at the resort.  It was hard to comprehend that such a beautiful resort could exist on the same island were people are starving every day.  It was a very relaxing and beautiful day, and it was wonderful to see a different side of Haiti than what we had seen.