No electricity today from early morning until just now (4 pm). That's rare for us -- it usually only goes out for a few minutes to an hour at a time. I was able to use our neighbor's wireless for awhile since he's got an inverter -- until the battery on my laptop was finished. So then what to do?
- Organize my new desk! It's a thing of beauty to have my own desk. I have had piles and piles of papers I've been working with the past five months, and today I had the perfect excuse to make time to file some and make a nice to-do pile out of the rest
- Pray with my colleague, Evelyne! We started out singing "Dieu tout puissant": Alors mon cœur redit, la nuit, le jour, 'Que Tu es bon, o Dieu d’amour!' -- a song I love in English and Spanish, too. We had a lot of things to pray about: Evelyne had to meet with her community yesterday to tell them that they had no funds to pay teachers. Our colleague Anias left today for a long journey by road to Port-au-Prince, where he'll work for two days and then go to the island of La Gonave with two other colleagues to the CHE programs just starting there. I need to get a vehicle, and need wisdom as to how to go about it.
- Get stories from our colleagues to fill out one of our overdue quarterly reports (we can still blame the cholera epidemic for being behind on paperwork, I think). That was super-fun, as everyone shared great stories of changes they've seen or heard about in CHE communities.
So now I have a clean desk and an overflowing e-mail inbox! ;-) Glad to have the electricity back on!
