things in Haiti take a while, that's one thing i'll definitely take with me. today we spent eight hours making foundations for honey comb. 6:30 am to 2:30 pm, but this is not something for me to complain about--i'm trying to look at this as something to learn from. i'm wrapped up in TIME. at home. i need to get in a full days work, but i don't even think i've ever known what a full days work was until coming here. these people are up at 5, literally once the sun comes up. we've been getting up pretty early as well..around 6 or 7. it's been a beautiful experience to wake up, get dressed and be outside with the rest of civilization in the early a.m. it's in interesting contridiction to being awake in the early morning in lincoln, maybe waking up--making or going to get coffee, seeing cars drive by and a few people on the street. here, i wake up either from a rooster, a tap tap honking as it drives down our sweet little dirt highway 44, the heat of the sun, or my eagerness to start the day. all pleasant, all better than my phone's alarm clock.
i think i love Oles more every day, even if just for his patience. he took about 20 minutes to talk to me today about Jesus. i don't feel he was trying to preach to me or convert me. he just likes to talk, and especially about Jesus because he is very devoted to him. but he was interrupted once, and then after a while came right back and picked up exactly where he left of. i find that he focuses so much on what he is saying, he never says anything he doesn't mean. he never tries to exaggerate or fabricate or pretend that he knows more than he does. i have so much to learn from him. we had a question today about what the difference was between 'caliente' and 'calor'---he was right and i was laughing about how wrong i was, and he said 'ohh but you handle it so well you're happy for me even though you're wrong'--he will always find the best in someone.
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