Day 6

Today we prepared to finish the quilts that the women had started. We told them about our visit to the sewing cooperative and they seemed very interested. We helped the women get their quilts together, which to out very beautifully. We also started six strip pillows with some of the older children. Many of them turned out really well and some of the kids even worked on sewing theirs on the treadle machines. One little boy even started his own zigzag quilt on the machine, and is very excited to finish it tomorrow. 

When some of the very little kids were getting bored we played our variation on American games. Instead of red light green light we play “un, deux, tois, solei.” And instead of duck duck goose we played “canard canard moid.” The kids had a lot of fun and the grown ups really enjoyed the entertainment. Ammonia also sang a beautiful song for us and keeps surprising us with her hidden talents.

After we had a tasty lunch of lentils we decided to go for a long walk. We drove for about half an hour next to a pretty frightening drop-off. My dad had to get out and check the road a few times to make sure we weren’t too close to the edge! We parked next to a small village and climbed up pretty high until we reached the top with almost a 360-degree view around us. We could see all the way out to the ocean and colorful mountains on all sides surrounded us. On our way back to the car many Haitian children joined us and asked us many questions like what our names were and how old we were. They were very sweet and walked us almost all the way back to our car. 

Before going back to the Curellis house we stopped and played a game of soccer with the villagers. We played a lot better today and we even scored a goal! We are excited to sew tomorrow for the last time and drive into Petionville and go shopping.