Mountainside Photo shoot + My week in pictures

Hi everyone!

Today we all decided to go on a hike. You can see the mountains in a haze from our guesthouse, so we figured we could make it to one of the mountains. We walked for about an hour and a half and finally made it to the base of a mountain. We started following the mountain road and eventually found a dirt path that went straight up one of the little mountains, so we followed that path up. The view from the top was amazing. We could see most of Leogane and the ocean! We had a little photo shoot at the top of the mountain- here are the pictures!

Lasya-style picture

We ended up taking about 4 hours for our whole trip and we were exhausted  by the end!

Here are more pictures from this past week in Leogane!

Salil, Amber, and I went to work at the Hopital St. Croix Pharmacy. We got a chance to count pills to put into the bags for the patients. We spent the whole time talking to the pharmacist, Jojo. He was a really nice guy and was very smart. He told us he wasn't married and didn't have a girlfriend, so we decided to set him up with our cook, Yvette (we told her we'd find her a potential husband). We described Yvette to him and told him she was pretty and was a great cook and everything. When we got home and told the cooks about Jojo, they said that they knew him and that he was married! Jojo had facebook friended us, and we checked his Facebook and indeed, there was a comment on his wall suggesting he had recently gotten married. We were shocked that such a nice guy lied to us about his marital status, and even let us try to set him up with our cook. Turns out that lots of Haitian men aren't really truthful about this kind of stuff- don't really know why!

The hospital pharmacy- they sell medication at a subsidized price (flat rate- about a dollar per medication you get), because most of the medication is donated by missionaries. 

Buster eating some bread we brought him!

Buster with his adopted mother, and his friend, Arthur-ina (we think she's a girl). So today, when we went to our dance lessons at Mon Petit Village, we went looking for Buster. I saw him looking down at the ground about 20 feet away from me. I called his name and HE ACTUALLY LOOKED UP!! I called his name a few more times, and he actually came over to me. Amber and I gave him some Rice Krispy Treats to reward him. We were so happy that we actually managed to make the name stick! It was a great moment :)

Visiting the school at Mon Petit Village! The kids were so cute! They were running around and playing, and they sang songs for us!

Posing with the kids in the school

A view of the classroom