Kay Kapab

I woke fairly early this morning, and had to make myself stay in bed a little longer...that is rare. My earplugs must have worked wonders last night because the girls say the rain woke them through the night crashing down in buckets. I heard nothing. Through the night though I knocked one loose and could hear odd bird screeches, but no rooster.
We took a walk around the property before breakfast, down by the bidonville...it is always so lively there! Music was blaring and you could hear children playing, full of life.
For breakfast we had huge bananas with Haitian peanut butter, great Haitian coffee mixed with their amazing chocolate drink, papayas, watermelon and there was an omelette caserole dish that I did not eat.
Jolyane, Nath and I worked in the clinic today, and Karen worked with a student in the guesthouse who is a keen learner and is becoming a speech assistant. Nath was in the P+O shop, and Jolyane and I worked in the rehab section. We tried to work one on one with the rehab techs there, there were 2 working today. The female was receptive, the male less so :) The male was more interested in us taking clients on our own so he could get through the waiting room faster. So we compromised, because Jolyane is bilingual she observed the therapist, and I took clients on my own. I am getting better at sherades. The clients enjoyed my broken french and quizzical looks, they are all so sweet and patient with me, and all so appreciative of the work we do.
After lunch, Jolyane and I set up workshop on the patio and made a to-do list: so things we would like to work on for the clinic. We noticed that re-assesmment is lacking, and clients get stagnant with minimal progress, they maintain the same treatment program for even over a year! We want to improve that process. Because ultimately our goal here is to have the clinic self sustaining, so that our organization no longer needs to support them. The tech says that they would like to do more re-assessment but often they do not have the paper to record it. So what we did today was put together a re-assessment form that will guide them to ask certain questions and ensure they are being thourough and are understood by their clients in regards to at home exercises.
Tomorrow we will review that with them and walk them through it with some clients, which means we are not going to Wings of Hope- but I will hopefully go there next week.
After we finished our work and discussed tomorrows plans with the staff we jumped into the pool which was very refreshing!
Then for supper we had riz nationale, fried plantains, beef, white fish and pikliz.
Then we all re-showered and worked on updating our friends and family via the internet :)
We are now sitting in the guesthouse with Cyril from Tour Haiti, working out our weekend plans in Jacmel. We are going dancing tonight in Petionville at La esquina latina (the latin corner) which Cyril says is extremely kitch with mirrors on the ceiling and rooms to rent upstairs. Although he swears there are no postitutes :) He says that if you want to dance, and hear haitian music, then it is the place to go. We are trying to get him to tell us the smooth cool place to go for tomorrow. He says latina is very 80's and themey. Should be an event. He is thinking we could get live music tomorrow at the Montana- contemporary jam session, open mics on Thursday night. We are now having a discussion on the pros of paying in Gourdes because they charge you more when they see the american dollars. Also the best and worst places to change your money. Bars are not a good place, the street is even worse.
Oh, impromptu visit to the grocery store!
a bientot!