Settled

Morning Star library

       



 Today has been good.  For the first time since arriving in early June, I feel settled and at home.  It took awhile this time, but I believe a lot of that had to do with waiting around for the language boot camp to start and having too much time to wonder about my move to Haiti.  The language camp helped because I now feel as if I can get around more independently, and if I DO get lost, I have the language skills needed to get back.
       

Entrance to Morning Star

          I am also looking forward to the start of the school year--said no American teacher ever early in July!  But I am.  It helped to take friends and family to Morning Star this morning to show them the campus.  I feel so much better knowing that they like the campus and like knowing where I will be for the next year.

Morning Star logo: we are the Warriors!

         My sense of feeling settled also comes from finally feeling organized--not only in my physical stuff but also in my cyber world stuff--it was really bothering me that pictures from my boot camp were all over the place and that my summer album was out of order.  It also helps that I was able to submit my application for the Affordable Care Act this afternoon--that is a weight off my shoulders!

         God at Work:

Friends

          Intern Abby has been working hard with Judeline and Junior, two severely neglected, mistreated, and malnourished children rescued from another orphanage.  She has been carrying weight on her shoulders about their next placement, and late this morning, she received an answer to prayer.  The children will not be going  to another orphanage, but will most likely be going to a communal living place in Jacmel.  It is a relatively new organization, and they look for adults who will serve as parents for children--living with them and caring for them. The women who is interested in taking these two children also has medical training!  God could not have answered prayers in a more perfect way.

Susan and our driver Aniel shooting pool
at Apparent Project

Hanging with the interns 

          Abby is obviously doing great things because this afternoon at the Apparent Project when she needed to send social work notes to the director of the home in Jacmel, her computer went kaput.  Something did not want Abby to keep doing this great work!  But, with the help of Erin, our resident computer expert; Susan with her wise counseling skills; and Erin's Uncle John on a business trip in Australia, her computer was fixed and the notes were sent!  God will not let Abby's work be for naught.