World Cup Soccer mania has hit Haiti.
June 16, 2010
Haitians call soccer football. They really love the sport. They are basically for one of two teams – Brazil or Argentina and most are for Brazil. We just finished watching Brazil play North Korea. My little Ti Luc was sitting here with a group of us and he kept yelling “Brasil, Brasil”. When they scored the two goals he was standing up and yelling. What a riot.
Ti Luc cheering for Brasil
My daughter, Liette, saw that game in person as she is in South Africa for the World Cup. She has a lot of envious friends and family members. The people watching the game in my house kept hoping to see Liette and Ti Luc was also yelling “Kote ou Liette?” (“Where are you, Liette?”)
Today our school was closed due to the Brazil game. Final exams started yesterday. We knew that today no one, teachers or students, would have their minds on anything but the Brazil game. Tomorrow the exams will continue. Our construction workers borrowed half a day today to watch the match too. They assured me they will work the four hours during this week. No doubt they will. No doubt too they were thrilled to leave and watch the match. Almost no one works during an exciting game in Haiti.
Well folks – exactly five months after the earthquake, on June 12th – Ti Luc slept back in the house in his own bed. I had been talking about it for some time to prepare him, about how special that would be, etc. He went willingly and is ready to go to his own bed every night now – no problems whatsoever. I have yet to make it to mine as my room had become a storage depot. I am, however, almost there. Sleeping in the house but not yet in my bed.
Ti Luc in his bed exactly 5 months after EQ
Ti Luc has a new trick to share now. He can turn on the TV by himself without a remote. He asked for television and I had said “tomorrow, it is too late in the day now”. He walked away without any fuss. I came into the living room and saw him trying to turn it on himself so I grabbed the camera and hid. He knew which button to push and tried to get his fingers to rest on it, but that is a very difficult task for him. He is a determined little guy and soon I saw him use his elbow to turn it on. He was thrilled but knew he needed to push one more button (smaller) to bring the picture from the satellite dish. He managed that by himself too, also by using his elbow. What joy of accomplishment on his face. Today I saw him turn it on using his chin.
I saw my mama push this button
Fingers not steady - try the elbow
Got it on Mama
A start was made on moving the fourth tank yesterday but something important came up and it could not be finished. The room on that level that was being used for storage, however, did come down. It looks empty up there now. Now when the last tank gets moved to its new home we are ready to have that heavy cement roof knocked down. That might mean that both satellite dishes (for internet and for TV) have to be taken down for protection and put back up after. I might possibly be without internet service for a day. If I have to loose it, hopefully it will be no more than a day. I would like to find a way for that roof to come down without the possibility of it crashing the satellite dishes so they could stay where they are.
Going to take down the room upstairs
gone
The workers have also been continuing with the cement work on the storage rooms. That will soon be finished. The railing for the stairs up to the tanks is almost finished as well. Luckner said today the doors for the storage rooms are done so soon they will be put on. Slowly and steadily the work is getting done. Because we have been working on a few different things at the same time it seems to be taking a long time. But things are happening and I am pleased with how it is being done.
trying to get storage rooms finished
Remember: IT IS ALL ABOUT THE CHILDREN !!!!
That’s it for this time. Good night friends. God bless you.
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