Friday at the orphanage

We left the house at 0815 then sat on the side of a street for a looooonnnnggggg time waiting for our interpreters. Super hard for us to work without them. The orphanage was very nice. The children were in the middle of school, when we arrive, so we hung out on the rooftop while we waited for them to finish up. It was fun to see the number shapes the kids had made with play dough. And what a cool sound to hear them all singing "Old MacDonald had a farm". We set up the "clinic" in the same fashion as the rest of the week. Johanna and I teamed up again for exam. We work well together and manage to have some fun with it too! I did manage to drain two cysts, but Fatima stole the show by draining 60ml's from a man's knee. The clinic started with seeing the 30 children of the orphanage and then opened to invited community members. The children were in very good health, clean and well fed. So very sweet. Evie and Johanna both had special buddies with them most of the day. We started seeing patients at 1030 and finished at 4 pm. We saw close to 200 people. Sad to say that tomorrow is our last working day. This week always goes too fast.- Kerry********************************************************* Today we went to an orphanage in a nicer part of town up in the hillside, the view from the deck was breathtaking, you could see for miles across the city to the ocean and mountains. It was the perfect spot to pause and just take it all in. The children here get frequent checkups from other organizations so they weren't as bad as the ones in the tent camps but some of there stories were heartbreaking, many had parents that couldn't afford them and had just abandoned them, or there parents had passed away. After seeing the children we saw all the locals in the community, some still suffering pain and injuries from the earthquake. Everyone in Haiti seems to suffer from a cold, congestion or burning eyes. The dust in the air here still lingers, everywhere you go you feel dirty and dusty, my eyes too sometimes burn and I am congested. After a few years of daily inhalation of the pollution here you can see the toll that it is taking on many people. Haiti and the people here have really grown on me and I am truly going to be sad to leave here. It really is a beautiful place, it just needs a lot a love and hard work to get things where they need to be out here!! -Canadian Cindy