Sunday, June 29, 2008
We went to
Ms. Prudence's church this morning. Her husband is the pastor there, and this is the church where we did our
mobile clinic yesterday. During the service Gavin
introduced us to the congregation, and each of us said something briefly. I said something in
Creole, and I almost
choked up, but I hope I said what I meant to say.
Just as we got out of church, there was a
crowd of people gathered around something on the ground. It turned out to be a
14-year old girl who had been carried in on a
stretcher from a village far away. She had a big
laceration behind her left thigh. Some old man
hit her with a
machete on
Tuesday, so she had an open wound for the last
5 days. Since it's been too long since the injury, we couldn't
suture it. Instead we
cleaned the wound,
bandaged it, and
brought her down with us. She'll be treated at our
clinic everyday.
I'm in
awe of how people here can just carry
heavy loads on their
head and trek over a mountain
barefoot. Many of them were so willing to help out as well. On the way back, it started to
rain a bit, and then it
poured when we got on the truck. It reminded me of the time when I went to
Zanmi Lasante, and rode through the
pouring rain on a open-back tap-tap for over 2 hours. It felt
good to be in the rain.
We got back around mid-afternoon, and I took a nice
hot shower. Oh, I never mentioned, but we have hot shower here. It's
amazing. After dinner we finished watching
Enchanted at Laura's place. I think we all have the song "
How does she know that you love her" stuck in our heads.
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