Having just spent over and hour and a hand typing up an email, to loose it due to a blackout, I may not write with a lot of descritiption. But, here I go!

Yesterday in Jacmel was Karnival. This is an annual celebration where people make their own huge masks out of Paper Marche.' For over 12 hours the strrets arr absolutely packed with people. Literally, there are people shoulder to shoulder of one another. It began near 11 AM and it did not end until nearly 5 AM the next morning. Claude and I began our walk to get to where we would watch the Karnival from, and in the meantime we acquored four lirrl boys with whom I shared the entire day and evening with. It was interesting, not really my idea of a huge load of fun, but intereting nevertheless.

Today we a busy day at the home.

At 9 AM my friend Paula who went to the states and resided there since she was very young. She now lives here in Jacmel, has a family of two very precious little girls. Paula recently joined the board of directors for Hearts with Haiti. She is now directly involved with the homes, though has not had a lot of exposer to the hpmes. Paula is going to meet up with Gilmiest and Mecheist tomorrow morning so that I can adequately relay the messesge I an trying to say.

Paula is going to be a volunteer at the homem

Today we had a group from Canada called Healing Hands. They are a a medical relief team focusing on physical, occupational, speech and financial levels. This team came to the house today and performed an overall/general health assessnet on each boy. This helped a lot as we have very little information about the children, we now will have a foundation for each of the work from.

Thanks for taking the time to read, I will be writing again soon,

Rebekh