Day 4 June 15, 2011



On the way to Beauchamp :)

 

On the Tap-Tap and laughing as usual!



Day 4 – We were on the road again today, a three hour Tap-Tap (which is a truck with benches in the bed) ride to a city called Beauchamp. We are staying three days and two nights. We were told not to bring tents because it never rains in Beauchamp and that we didn’t have to worry about bug spray because there are no bugs. We entertained ourselves lots on the way to Beauchamp (as you can see from the pictures), and we learned lots of new games. When we were about thirty minutes from Beauchamp we started feeling sprinkles and hearing thunder followed by lightening. By the time we got to the mission and unloaded the Tap-Tap it was a full fledge storm; pouring rain. 





The missions' church in Beauchamp!



A cute trailer at the mission in Beauchamp with a prayer/
bible verse in Haitian Creole painted on it!



Anyone that travels to Haiti or a country where there are not paved roads should be prepared to be stranded when it rains because rain turns the dirt roads into mud pits. For all you Georgians out there who have seen their fair share of Georgia Clay, Haitian Clay is about 10 times worse than any Georgia Clay I have ever seen! As there was no way to do VBS or Sports Camp in the pouring rain we stayed inside and played cards, talked, and took naps. There are a few Haitian children that live here on the mission that we played with but while we were stuck in the rain there was not much mission work that could be done. Today I realized that I should be very thankful for rain boots, umbrellas, cars with roofs, and paved roads.