The night before we had stressed to the girls that we NEEDED to sleep a lot the next day so they shouldn't be loud by our container in the morning. We may or may not have threatened their lives. It was the ONLY morning that we didn't hear a peep from them. Seriously, the ONLY morning EVERRRRR. We slept something like 11 or 12 hours. However, it's a good thing that we did get so much sleep because boy did we have a lot to do! We were overdue on changing the oil and the filter on the generator so we had to find the filter and the jugs of oil in the container. We slept through the coolest part of the day so it was extra hot in the container. We searched for the filters and oil for over an hour! We couldn't find them anywhere. All we wanted was a break in some air conditioning but we couldn't turn the generator on until we changed the oil. What a predicament. All the other times we have needed to get something out of the container we search for it for sooo long, take a break, then go into the container and find it right away. So this time, we decided we should probably take a break to get some cokes. Sure enough, after our short break we found the oil jugs after a two second search. We decided to just drain the oil since we took so long searching for the stuff and wanted to feel productive. We opened the hood of the generator and had no clue where to begin. We decided to call Tom and Amy talked to him for a long time but couldn't figure it out so she handed me the phone to see if I understood better. Right when she handed me the phone she pointed to a sticker on the FRONT of the generator that said "OIL DRAIN." Oh cool, that's exactly what we were looking for. Just like everything else that day, right when we decided to give up we found it. Tom told us to just change the oil and not worry about the filter right away since we couldn't find it. We drained the oil (we only spilled a little.. kind of) and filled it up with clean oil. A couple of the girls were hanging around watching and one of them named Trouble, I mean Jenifer, stuck her finger in the dirty oil as it was draining and licked it before we could stop her. EW! We freaked out and I think it scared her a little. We sent all the kids away and told Vanessa to tell all the little kids not to touch it because it could make them really sick.
We cleaned up our mess and were ready to go to town to buy some food. However as we were leaving it started pouring REAL hard. We decided to wait on the porch of the orphanage for a little to see if it stopped. Jean showed up and we talked to him for a while about the plans to plant some fruit trees on the property. The rain wasn't stopping so we decided to stay and eat some of the food we brought instead. It's a good thing we decided to because Jean called right after he left to tell us not to go out in the rain because the roads are especially dangerous. He told us there was a car accident right outside the boys orphanage (no one was hurt badly thank God) It was crazy because the car that was smashed sat in the middle of the road for 24 hours before some people decided to push it to the side. There are no lights on that road so it's surprising that no one slammed into it in the middle of the night.
Anyway, we went to the AIR CONDITIONED container, had some food (which was gross so we gave it to Enel and Fifi who loved it. Jesus would be so proud of how generous we are. not.) then we sang with the girls. We sat in the older girls room and it felt like a sleepover which was fun. Vanessa prayed for us then we had Roberline read a verse in Creole that Amy and I found about controlling your anger. Earlier in the day some of the girls got in a pretty intense fight and emotions were definitely running high. We hoped the Bible verse would be applicable for how they were feeling. Then we taught them a song in English called "Mighty to Save." One of the older girls never talks to us or even acknowledge that we are there. She sleeps in the room that we were sitting in and we were SO excited when she participated and later asked Amy how to pronounce some of the words in the song. She could have asked Vanessa or Roberline who were sitting right there but she decided to ask Amy. Yay for progress!! Once we finished singing they turned the radio on and it turned into a dance party. It got a little crazy so Amy and I decided to go to bed. As we were walking back we talked about how their lives are like a constant, unsupervised teenager sleepover. It's cool to see them having fun but sometimes we wonder if it's not good for the littler kids to see.
We love these girls so much and wish we could have a sleepover every night with them! We're realizing how little time we have left and it's making us sad.
-Becca
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