One Last Day

Three of us finished up some final work: an outside shower installed,
another shelf hung, a chair repaired.

Two of us headed to Port-au-Prince to capture a floor plan and
column placement from the church at Carrefour Feuilles, the largest
Wesleyan church in Haiti. The plan was to get to the church early,
quickly complete the measurements and get back to Croix Luly by
early afternoon thus having plenty of time to relax and pack.

If you were reading this carefully and remembered that we're in Haiti,
you would expect more to the story. Here it is.

Instead of leaving at 7 am, we left a little after 9 am and made a
couple unplanned stops. We arrived at the church about 10:50 am
and discovered that a worship service had begun and would continue
until noon. So we sat in the rear of the church and enjoyed listening
to a sermon in Creole. The worship services in Haiti are certainly
energetic with significant congregational participation. Once the
service had concluded and the congregation had exited, we got to
work. The idea was to locate the position of every column on the
floor plan so an architect could use this data to design a permanent
roof structure. There were about 40 columns. After about 2 hours,
the columns were positioned, and we headed home.

We were on the opposite side of Port-au-Prince from where the
road to Croix Luly lies, and we wanted to get some pictures of
Judain's house so by the time we finally arrived back at Croix Luly it
was after 5 pm. Just enough time to eat, rearrange and pack the
suitcases, and write and post this blog entry.

We're scheduled to leave the house here about 5:30 am for the hour
or so trip to the airport. Scheduled departure from Port-au-Prince is
8:45 am, and arrival in Philadelphia is 5:35 pm. It has been an
exceedingly productive trip; Dan & Joy Irvine are very pleased with
what we've been able to accomplish. It will be good to be home.