First sign of the Rainy Season

Bon Swa again!
The last couple days have been interesting. Let's see, the tarantula capturing count is only up to three, but I've got the rest of the summer, so that number can improve. Yesterday was a bit slow for the building team. I've been putting tarp up around the shelters and yesterday we only tarped two because I left to help the building team finish framing a few others and then the monsoon hit in the early afternoon. We decided to call it a day, but then a truckload of building supplies arrived and we had to unload it...at the worst part of the downpour. I was soaked to say in the least (but if you've kept up with my blogs of my past trips you know this now makes 4 monsoons in 4 different countries, so I kinda expected it). It was a crazy afternoon; the Haitian men on our team rounded up as many community members to help us unload as possible: men, women children, all grabbed something out of the truck and we had it unloaded in about 15 minutes. In the chaos I did manage to step in sewage as I helped a guy in the village carry some tin roofing units...se la vie (of course I don't know any French). Today however, we caught up from yesterday and finished 5 units.
It's really very heartbreaking to see the conditions that most of the people live in. It's rather common for a woman to have 5-8 kids, and many of them are undernurished (from what our medical team has told us they've seen). I've seen a lot of similar situations in India as well, and it really breaks your heart to know that you can't personally help everyone there. That's when I just have to rely on the fact that God will use me to help people I do come into contact with and many times I'm also left better off because of that "poor" person's presence in my life.
Well, I gotta run, but I hope to have some pictures soon!
Matthew ;^)