Day 6- Monday

Couple cool things we learned about Haitians/Haiti:

                -They don’t trust people with tattoos, piercings (for guys), or weird hairdos (like Mohawks, color…)

                - Church dress is very conservative you must have a long skirt or dress on, closed shoes, and guys typically wear a suit like outfit

                - It’s bad to try to be too American or French

                - They try and live a very community driven life. Everyone knows each other, most stay close to home, and very friendly.

                - Creole seems to be a mix between French and Spanish and there is some English (like Hello and Bye-Bye and OK)

Today was a good day. We got there in the morning and right away started playing with the kids and Benithy. I think she has connected with The Man and I. She seems to smile at us more and is talking a LOT more. It’s really hard to know if she REALLY understands our part in her life. She probably will not get it completely until we take her home. It must be so confusing for her and the kids for us to sweep in for 2 weeks and then in an instant leave. It’s already so hard to wrap my own brain around. None the less we were there and had a good day. We played outside, inside, hide-and-seek, school, chase, walk around the whole crèche… endless fun! J Today we spent a lot of time with all the kids. I tried to get them to play duck-duck-goose…. But that did not go well! J I tried to think of something fun for us all to do together.

I will tell you this about Benithy, she is SASSSSSSSY! She even has the hand on the hip with the ‘ol head swivel move down! J One thing is for sure, we gotta get on learning our Creole so that when she DOES finally get home we can get some kind of communication with her. She seems very healthy and good in size! She fits in those 3T outfits no problem!

We finally got to SEE The Bash today. Our connection was not great and they could not hear us… but we got to see him and blow kisses his way. As much as I love being here, I sure miss that boy!

Nothing too exciting to report today. Another couple is supposed to be here today… but it looks like that it may be tomorrow. They are also adopting from C4C, but they have a little boy. It will be nice to have another couple around to hopefully play games with, and if anything talk to in English! Right now our conversations with others are limited to “Bonjour! Or Bonswa! Or Merci! Or Como ou yea? Bien…” Maybe some hand motions… J hahahaha!