Day 4- by Peter

This morning we woke up a little earlier and went to the prayer rock for a little devotional time. After spending about a half an hour to ourselves reading and reflecting, we divided up between organizing one of the warehouses here at the mission and painting one of the classrooms a new color. At the warehouse we moved boxes of clothes and shoes outside to sort them and put them in classrooms so we could give them out tomorrow. Those of us painting got covered with dots of blue and joked around while we were trying to reach each bit of the walls in our room with paint. It was good to spend some time doing work that made an immediate and visible difference. With our work for the day behind us, we ate some lunch and prepared to leave with the other mission team here to go to a beach resort about twenty minutes away. The resort was called Wahoo Bay and it was by far the nicest place we have seen in Haiti so far. They had a freshwater pool just like we'd see at the beach back home and great places to lay out on chairs in the sun. The beach wasn't huge but it was so nice getting to swim in the cool ocean. Some of us payed to go snorkling, and we were rowed about a quarter mile along the coast to a coral reef where we swam around, getting to hold some coral and sea urchins. When we got back from snorkling we messed around on the beach and at the pool until dinner time at five. We got to eat some great food from the resort like friend pork and shrimp creole. We drove back to the mission and got to hang around for the rest of the night. It was awesome to get some time to relax and see how much Haiti has to offer beyond the poverty. -Peter