Sites to See

Sunday
At 7:20 am we headed for Port-au-Prince; an hour later we arrived
at the Wesleyan church in the Cite Soleil section of the city. Another
team had been working this week pouring the reinforced concrete
walls between the posts. Both teams joined the local congregation
for their morning worship service.

Following that service, three of us joined Dan and Judain for a trip to
Babaco. Babaco is a rural village toward the Dominican border
from Port-au-Prince; it is the site where the Penn-Jersey team from
Pine Grove built a pole barn church in the summer of 2010. The
church there is wanting to put up a 4-room school. While we were
there, the people of the church insisted on serving us rice & beans,
and chicken.

Dan identified a need for designing wood trusses so some time was
spent scouring the web for free software. In fact, that web surfing is a
primary reason for the absence of a post yesterday.


Monday
One of the truss design demo programs has some potential; it's not
clear how feasible this approach will be.

Water was seen dripping from the kitchen ceiling last evening.
Investigation today revealed a leaking joint in the water supply to the
sink in our bathroom. Unfortunately, most of the plumbing is inside
concrete walls. Fortunately, one of our guys was able to find and
repair the leak.

A third door was framed on the auxiliary building; two doors were
hung. More painting was done, a key box was mounted; and
another lockset was installed.