i don't even know what day it is...

haitian time is so slow. everything is done at such a slow, relaxed pace. you tell people to show up at 7am and they come the next day around noon. we work really hard and then just decide to stop everything were doing to sit on the roof instead. its nice. today is monday, i think? i wear a watch i got for christmas but i hardly ever look at it and even when i do it doesn't matter much. i wake up when the sun barely shows through my window. I'm so tired at the end of the day that 9:30pm seems too late to be awake. i am literally forced to take every moment as it comes to me without making plans for the future. as an american, i feel like every moment of every day has to be spent doing something i "have" to do. but our time is borrowed and someday we have to give it back. in the mean time, the americans can keep they're busy lifestyles that don't make time for people. ill stick to haitian life. 

today involved more cleaning. we finished organizing another room today. only two more to go. we ate this pasta today that had haitian hot dogs, onions, and some weird tomato-ish sauce. it was delicious but i put too much hot sauce on it and it ruined my afternoon. had to take a nap after that. while we were cleaning, becky stopped where she was and said "were missing the sun set again tonight." so i said, "we can do this tomorrow." so we took showers really fast (i miss real showers more than anything at this point), went to the roof, and talked about the art project I'm going to do tomorrow.

kate and paul had this brilliant idea today. tomorrow, while the girls are in school, we are going to walk to the tent camp thats just on the other side of our neighbors house and bring the kids who can't afford to go to school back to the church tent for a craft. I'm going to teach them shapes by cutting sponges, letting the kids dip them in paint, and print the shapes on one huge piece of sketch pad paper i found. this is the first time ill be doing something from my own lesson plans &the first time ill really be working with neighborhood kids. I'm excited but it takes so much planning. i have to think about every little detail because there really is no telling what these kids will do (or eat). 

moya's birthday was today. she is now a 2 year old pretty princess. for anyone reading who doesn't know, moya was left here a while back with no birth certificate or information. she has cerebral palsy so she has no control of her muscle movements. she's getting much stronger and starting to use her hands and make facial expressions. she is so precious. becky and i found a couple boxes of cheap tiaras today so we gave one to each girl. they danced around the veranda in their princess attire to justin bieber. there was haitian cake and tampico, these fun colored fruity drinks. what a funny night. 

also, we only just decided to go to calico (the beach resort) tomorrow. I'm going to get a tan instead of work in a dusty room sorting the girls clothes out. yesss! maybe ill even eat some crab/lobster and buy some coconut wood jewelry? 

theres a mosquito in my net now so i gotta go!