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update from haiti

from lucas & Alicia

We are still here...

Sorry for the lack of updates, I'm really good at updating my flickr and twitter and facebook but if you don't follow my updates at any of those places, it would be hard to get them... We are still here in Haiti - we were supposed to leave on Saturday but 7 days just seemed too short. We extended it until Monday, but even that is seeming short. There is so much computer stuff and logistical stuff to do here and things move sooo slowly. For example, we've been waiting about a week to get a modem for the school so the kids can use it for educational online games. We've gone twice to this place now, and no modems. When will you get a modem we ask? Shrug of shoulders, they answer. So we have to drive up again to try and retrieve a modem that might not be there. TIH (this is Haiti). We've been really enjoying our time here, last week and a half went by so fast. Alicia has been helping with administrative/team logistics stuff, teaching dance class, helping with the feeding program, and more that I am probably forgetting about. I am helping with computers/website/communication/photography and helping Child Hope in any geeky way I can. Here's a few highlights from the past week and a half:

Helping out at the computer lab at the new MDL school. Alicia and I both taught classes - this is the kids favorite class!

Seeing the hard labor of people who have come to Haiti to help - pictured below is the wall around the girls home that was rebuilt after the quake.

Learning Creole on the street from neighborhood kids

Good Friday service on a nearby hill in the ravine

Easter Service overlooking Port Au Prince

Reconnecting with friends and making new ones

There is really a lot more to say, I have been trying to send this newsletter out for the past few days and haven't been able to. There is so much rebuilding to do - of walls, of houses, of hearts and lives. Pray that God would be the center of this rebuilding!

Here are some ways to get continued updates:
Lucas' Flickr set for this trip: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucastheexperience/sets/72157623706590808/
Lucas' twitter: http://www.twitter.com/loomtronic
Lucas' Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lucastheexperience
Alicia's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/aliciamaesimmons