Furry little friend!

Ok so I had a brilliant weekend again - we went to the beach again but this time we went to labadee which is owned by the royal caribbean cruise ship so when the ship isn't docked its open to the public for use its only about 100 goudes in - around a pound i think. The only thing is its totally americanised so its full of like hair braiding stations and cafes and bars etc! Altogether around 30 of us travelled in one big truck so there was definitely some close fellowship! There was the 2 american teams (1 construction, 1 medical) me, Sunmin and a few others!!! Evan also arrived on saturday I was so excited cos it meant another good oul Norn irish person to stand up for u lot at home lol alot of the banter between us and the americans is about the language barrier we've had some interesting consequences just because of terms like pants, ladybird and torch!!!

Then on sunday morning we had an early start! We went to pastor daniels church - he also works in the clinic - which started at 7 am!!! It was amazing though ,they presented each of us with certificates with our names on them to say thank you for risking our live to get on a plane and come to haiti to help!! it was so nice! Then after that they played/sang a song and pastor daniel announced that the whole church was to embrace eachother and bless eachother ... ok so i kind of have personal space issues with people i dont know... so this was... interesting to say the least!!! I got around 100 hugs and kisses in the space of about 2 minutes!!! Yikes! I think I've gotten my quota of hugs for the next year! lol. Every sunday afternoon we go to the cristoff hotel for lunch but because church was over by like 10 there was no point going back to the compound since the cristoff was about 10 mins from pastor daniels church. The cristoff happens to have the only swimming pool in the whole North of Haiti whoop whoop lol!! So you can probably guess what we did - yep we went straight to the cristoff and relaxed by/in the pool until lunch!!! What an amazing day The craic was ninety!!! Carly (one of the girls on the American medical team she's my age) and i were messing around and i got her to stand on my hands and i threw her up and back into the water (if that makes sense lol) so then julie briggs the physio at the clinic whos from NI taught SunMin and I how to throw people properly (she used to coach gymnastics) and she taught carly how to do back flips so by the time lunch came our arms were sooo tired I think we threw Carly, Amy (one of the nurses from canada) Julie and Tyler (who was on the construction team) sooo many times i lost count lol! Sunday afternoon we came back to the compound and just had a bit of banter and some people slept etc.

Yesterday (monday) was just a normal day in the clinic lots of consulting lots of patients, malnourished, diabteic, TB, HIV, Hypertension etc and then 2 new people moved into my house!!! so exciting!!! They're called Nadine and Vicki, they're nurses from Canada and are here for 2 weeks so its class to have some company (they're around my age too). Last night however i went down to the kitchen just to get my bottle of water out of the freezer and all the lights were out so, as you do, i turned it on - big mistake - as i saw a rat run right across my path across the kitchen counter I let out a big GASP stopped to make sure and process that I had actually just seen what I saw and then Ran down the corridor screaming ERICA!!!! I'm jumpy now just wrting about it!! So we've set a trap and some poison but there's no sign of it ... yet... I really don't do rats!!! Anyway thats enough for now lol. Missing you all loads!! Please keep reading and posting!! (Apparently mummy is quite good at it now if you want some advice lol)
God Bless xoxoxoxo