Day 6

Today was a day of church and rest for the Haitians so we didn’t have sewing class. Instead we went for a long three-hour walk to a large hotel for a snack. On the walk we went by a “lumber mill” and saw where people had been sawing wood into planks with a two-handled saw, a technique that hasn’t been used in America for 150 years.  The walk was pretty slippery since it had been raining on and off the whole time we were walking. At the end of a trek seeing the hotel was like an oasis. It was extremely beautiful and had un-used pools and tennis courts. There were not many people there except for a few foreigners and many dogs. For our snack we had French fries and fried plantains. Apparently the plantains were extremely good with picklies; pickled cabbage, peppers, and carrots, but I didn’t eat them because they were extremely spicy. The people who had tried them had watering eyes and noses. We finished up our snack with tea, coffee, and Haitian cake. The cake was extremely delicious and contained Haitian limes and pineapple juice. Well refreshed we returned back to the house with our pant legs weighed down with mud. At the house I finished sewing an adorable quilt that the currelly’s granddaughter Lucy had started, but had to leave before she could finish.  We also put the quilt on its quilt frame and sewed one of the blocks with fancy stich. In the middle of the quilt it was very difficult to sew because you couldn’t reach under the quilt frame. So we had one person push the needle to the bottom, and the other on their back under the quilt pushing the needle to the top. It was pretty hard work, but we are very much looking forward to seeing how the Haitians will do with it tomorrow.