Week of August 7th.

Visiting work team: Worked on team housing (plumbing, painting, trim), visited the Agape kids, organized supplies, walked to the fort/ruins of the coffie plantation and our house site.

Cory traveled down with the team when they left on Thursday to do some shopping and banking and returned on Friday.

Now the need to learn the stores and roads around Port-au-Prince again.

House construction: the water cistern is nearly finished. We met with the contractor we are using for the walls and cement work to work out a plan. We continue to look at where doors, windows, electrical outlets, plumbing need to go.

Some of the workers left for the weekend as more cement is needed to continue the work. Others continued to dig gravel and gather rocks for the walls.

A few of the people here are not feeling great so we have had a slower weeked...mostly down time with some cleaning and cooking.

Internet did not work for a day or so when we moved the dish, and now the inverter needs repair, most likely due to a close lighting strike last week. So we only have electric when we run a generator for now.

Adoption-no progress other than hearing that our adgency did contact the USA Embassy's adoption unit in Haiti to discuss our case. Keep praying.

Plan to start school this coming week. Start working on the rest of the lower floor which will mean that the workers first remove the rocks and gravel that they piled next to the water cistern.

New team houses