An aboundance of points to everyone!

Okay, I'm dropping the comments/points thing. I have a feeling it's getting old. HOWEVER, before I do this I just want to say that I have awarded aboundance of points to Mom and Dad, Colleen, Kayla, and Michelle. (I didn't want you guys to feel cheated or anything) But I should remind you that these are Haitian points. So, you need take your points, divid them by seven and the times them by 35.8 to get your US points. (sorry I guess this is probably only funny to me because I know how the Haitian currency exchange works, and it's crazy) Whew, okay, I'm done with that.

But seriouly now, the last couple days have been kind of rough, I guess you could say the whole week actually. I found out the other day that the orphanage has ran out of food four days ago (the orphanage situation is kind of complicated right now), I'm was kind of frustrated that no one had told me and that that was even allowed to happen (It's actually not as shocking and you may think.) I mean, I know money is beyond tight around here but come on, but it ended better. I'll just tell you the story: there was a bit of a mix up in when the next shipment of food would be available for the kids and it would be at least another week before we could pick up the food but if you remember, the orphange had already run out of food four days ago. Now I didn't know if it was just that the pastor didn't come to us sooner or what but as as soon as I found out, I was actually pretty upset. And then I remembered, my dad had started this little project that he called "pocket change for Haiti" and what my dad would do it just take his change from his pockets at the end of the day and put it into this jar. He actually has some pretty neat stories about it, if you see him around, ask him about it. So my dad started this jar when i was in Jacmel the first time and then right before I went, he gave me the money to use for something in Haiti. I though this would be a pretty good time. So the next mourning we took the money to go buy food for the kids. With this money, this "pocket change" we were able to buy: 3 35lbs sacks of rice, 2 large tubs of oil, juice packets, like 130 candle and matches (they don't have electricity yet so that's what the candles and matches are for). So that should be enough to hold 26 kids over until the next shipment comes in. As cheesy as it sounds, this just goes to show you that we can really make a difference. We brought the food to them that mourning. It was a relief to know that they had food now and that food was coming but I still wasn't at ease. I had also found out that we were now going to have to come up with some money to pay for the food that was going to be available in a week or so (we thought it would be donation like it has been the last time) The price was still, compatabliy, pretty cheap. But the orphanage basically had no funding and bills and needs that are piling. Not to mention that the base itself is technically still in the red because we didn't turn down students for the DTS just because they didn't have the money yet. Sometimes I don't know how this base is still running, I mean, I've seem the books, I do the accounting, but somehow the money just always gets there and I don't know if I could even tell you how. ANYWAY, I'm getting a little off subject. Turns out, someone donated $5,000 to the orphanage, so that is pretty cool.

I actually started this entry a while ago, like maybe a week, and I kinda just want to finish it so if it seems kind of cut off, that's why. I'm also a little sick, so it might be a little while before I make another entry.