Haiti Day 5: Goat

By Stephanie Bream

Imagine you’re at a petting zoo. Along with the possible lamb, llama, and piglet, there is a goat (goats are a petting zoo staple). Now, normally you would grab and handful of food and feed the goat…but not today. Today the goat fed us. That’s right, we all ate goat for lunch (6 platefuls if you’re Stephen) and it was delicious. Our Haitian cook Jaqueline prepared a wonderful meal of goat, beans and rice, sweet potatoes, and spicy coleslaw for us and we were all very grateful for her hard work.

Speaking of hard work, we had a very productive day. We built and varnished 7 cabinets for classrooms and they look fabulous. All we have left to do is put the doors on them. Lindsey and I even built one all by ourselves and felt very empowered by our accomplishment. I’m sure our dads will be proud. We also finished sharpening the entire box of 1,430 pencils today. That was a team effort if I ever saw one. While leaving the workspace for the day, Cristina was almost assassinated by a maliciously plummeting palm frond. Fortunately, it hit Stephen’s water bottle instead and left a nice dent. Tomorrow, we’ll give the varnished wood pieces some time to dry tomorrow while we go shopping and visit an orphanage in the afternoon. I’m looking forward to it.