One month ago, I arrived at COTP!  The month has flown by and everything is going very well!  I'm still learning names of the kids, nannies and the other local Haitian staff.  There are so many names to remember.   I'm also still learning Creole.  I've been working on numbers and some specific phrases to help me in the office.  I still have a lot to learn yet.  However I feel like I'm picking up more than I realize.  I seem to understand what people are saying (if they speak slowly) but have a hard time answering them back in Creole.

A lot of fun things have happened since my last post!  My roommates and I went for a moto/quad ride to the market.  It was a beautiful ride with all the mountains around us!  We've had a few birthday parties for the kids.  I've gone out for dinner with the VanderPols and my roommate as well as a few short term volunteers.  We had a birthday party for my roommate last night where we played games and ate yummy cheesecake.  A few nights ago, it stormed really hard and afterwards we had an awesome sunset!

The view outside of our apartment!

 

 

A few nights ago, my roommates decided it would be fun to ask me a bunch of questions to learn more about me.  One of their questions was "if you could do one thing in the world and you didn't have to worry about the money to do it, what would you do?"  My answer was to do exactly what I'm doing right now!  It may be hot and we might have rats and cockroaches but I wouldn't trade it for anything!