Today we went to the beach about an hour north of Port-au-Prince
with some of the kids from the Grace Village orphanage. Now I, having never
left the country before and had never seen the ocean, saw it and swam in it for
the first time. And it was amazing; the salt in the water hurt my eyes,
but it wasn't bad once you got used to it. The beach was beautiful and clean
with clear, tropical blue water and white sand. This is a big change from
the garbage-cluttered coasts we'd seen in the city. We hung out with the kids
from Grace Village at the beach for a while and had lunch which was PB&J or
Nutella sandwiches we had prepared the night before. I do not know how to swim,
but my friends were more than willing to help me not drown. After searching for
treasure under the water (namely crabs, sea urchins, jelly fish and shells) and
pretending I was a wizard, we started the long tap-tap ride home where we had a
delicious spaghetti dinner and had some spiritual time as we did our evening
devotions. After the devotions it began to rain HARD, so we decided to
take the opportunity to make the upper deck of the guest house into a giant
slip-and-slide. Fun was had by all as we slid not-so-gracefully across the
upper deck. Thus concludes another wonderful day in Haiti.
Yours in Christ,
Daniel
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