Monday morning

We decided to rise early today so that we could breakfast before taking in the 700 student chapel service down at the church. This was nearly all student led, and featured charming a cappella singing of several songs by the children. However, the message was given by an energetic young man in a tie and carrying a Bible—a future principal of the school in training.

After chapel was an outdoor ceremony called Flag. Mary Jane tells me it is similar to the Pledge of Allegiance, but they sing a different verse of a song for Haiti each day of the week. The children stand outdoors at attention for this brief ceremony. The first photo below shows this; the second shows our team watching them.

This morning, Mark is working on photographing the children. These photographs will be sent to the sponsors, as well as used for occasional other special purposes by Mary Jane. In the photo below, Sveta and Eric are visible behind Mark.

The Single men are working on the roof this morning. (Well, Jake and Matt are single; Tom, while not single, is Single.) I was with them for a while, but eventually decided to come back up to the guesthouse to blog for a bit while the wifi was available (because the generator is running to power the drill). It is not my first trip back up here this morning. and Mary Jane remarked, "You're making a lot of trips up that hill!" It's true that it's a fairly significant climb, and the several journeys we make up and down it each day provide us all with a good workout. The following picture shows a portion of this trail we're coming to know well.