It is Tuesday- In case you didnt know?

Madi, (tuesday)
We have been woken up the past few days by the singing of the church choir which is better than the normal alarm of a rooster but the downside is that the choir practice happens to be around 4:30am-5am. I am not sure why the choir practice is so early, Im sure American churches do not match up to this commitment.

The past few days have involved alot of setting up of lesson plans and some of those lesson plans acted out. The problem we found was that our beginner class was very beginner which led us to believe our intermediate class was in a similar state. Although they were not. So we had to dim down our beginner lesson plan and bulk up the intermediate. The advanced class is going great because it is just generally easier to speak in it. Everyone sort of understands most of what you are trying to say. Overall everyone is eager to learn which is the mentality needed and well appreciated.

On Saturday me and James headed out to the top of one of the mountains to maybe catch a glimpse of the sunset. Walking right after it had been raining for a couple hours was a little difficult and the steep terrain was extremely muddy. Arriving at what we thought was close enough to the top we realized that there were too may clouds and we couldnt really tell where the sun was. So we went higher until we found a little patch of grass where James and some Haitian children sat and I tried to go a little higher in order to see what was further. I did find something. that something was a bull. A random bull just hanging out on top of this mountain. I imagined that it was tied up so I tried to get closer only to find out it was night tied up at all. It started to move my way and I don't know alot about bulls. Never really thought i would need to know alot about them, but i do know that they have the tendency to charge things and usually that involves whomever they charge to be in pain. So I should have backed away, but my curiosity and possibilty for a photo opportunity fueled my steps forward. It all ended up that the bull was not going to charge but he seemed more timid and afraid of me. I tried to get a photo but i was nervous the flash would set him off into a stampede so I only got a picture of my bull in the dark with his eyes glowing at me. The trip also didnt really involve any good sunset pictures because of the mountain range and clouds.

Two days later James was still full of adventure I suppose and told me he was going on a walk in the morning. He came back after 3 hours and he walked in wearing sweat as his shirt. His story involved his uncanny sense of adventure to lead him higher up one of the mountains and then to find his "own way" back. The trailblazing James then retold this part of the story with great regret involving his treacherous return to OFCB accompanied by constant river fjording and other such incidents. But He is alive and well. even though he lost all of his limbs and is now in a makeshift wooden wheelchair with the wheels made of barbedwire. I hope he enjoyed his adventure. No, he is alive and well with all limbs.

I am having a good time here except for the frequent power outages and the water will stop running. Despite the loss of luxury amenities I am enjoying my stay here in Bayonnais and I really enjoyed teaching yesterday. I tend to teach the intermediate while James takes on the Beginner class, while we both have input in the Advanced.

I want to thank all of you who have wished my luck and said they were thinking of me whether that was through facebook, email or prayer. I hope all of you are well and I will try to upload some pictures.

-Aaron