Monday, March 30, 2009
While my fellow missionaries went to Ile a Vache I stayed behind to spend the day in Les Cayes. Knowing they would be climbing up the side of a mountain made me think twice about attempting that with two bad knees. My plans for the day included a trip to the hospital in Les Cayes, spending the afternoon with the girls from the orphanage teaching them to make paper beads and then late afternoon with the boys at the orphanage doing an art project.
The paper bead project is one I had been planning for a very long time. One problem I encountered, which didn't surprise me was that the television was on in the administrative dining room and the "Bee Movie" was on. While I was trying to get the girls to focus on the technique their eyes often wandered to the television. What I found fun was that Babbout (my translator) loved art projects and while he was to explain the process - he did so while working on the beads himself. While it was fun there were moments when I wished so much that I could speak Creole. The language barrier was so very obvious.
The girls were mindful of each other and happily waited their turn to use a glue stick or brush.
Later that evening some of the girls wandered up to the dining area. We had finished dinner and I was enjoying a Coke made with sugar cane sugar (yum!). The beads had dried and I began trimming them so they would have the finished beads for the next day. With the television being off several girls crowded around and they began helping by pulling the plastic center stick out. They were tickled with the finished product. I would love to have had another afternoon to do it again.
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