Haiti Through the Eyes of the Kulfan Kids

In the past twelve months, our lives have been changed. From new ways of learning to meeting new friends. We wanted to change things up a bit and tell you what Haiti is like through our eyes. So here is a brief explanation of our everyday life. We hope you enjoy.

This is what we did on LaGonave for school: on Mondays and Wednesdays we went to the Moringa room. We called it the Moringa room because it is where they package the powdered Moringa. We stayed there for most of the day trying to get our school work done. On a normal day we usually arrived at 7:00am and left around 5:30pm. We went to the Moringa room because our internet wasn’t good at our house and it was nice and fast in the Moringa room. We don’t quite have a schedule yet for Port-au-Prince. Our days are always different.

We have lots of friends here, whether they are locals or other third culture kids (TCK’s). Our local friends are really kind and help us learn Creole. Their mom owns a boutique so sometimes she gives us a sucker or a bag of water. What we like about them is that they are so friendly and always willing to help us.

We enjoy hanging out with our missionary friends too. These friends are fun to spend time with because they know what it is like to go from hot showers all the time, groceries a five minute drive away, and the tap water being filtered and fresh, to none of the above. Also, they always make us laugh no matter how much we miss our friends in the States or how bad of a day we are having. 

We also love having friends in the States who are always willing to let us talk to them when we need to or who just fill us in on things that are happening in the States. We thank Jesus every day for the people whom he has placed in our lives to make life more enjoyable here. We are still making friends on the mainland and are glad for all of the friends that we have and will come.

There are many kinds of food that are different from the States. One of our favorite meals to eat here is rice and congo beans with sauce. Some different foods here are labouyi, penposh, pates, chicos, grenadia and many other foods. Some drinks that we have here that aren’t in the States are Limonade, Fruit Champagne, Sekola, Tampico and Ju Goo. The labouyi is like a porridge or cream of wheat, penposh is a bread pocket with seasoned burger, and pates are a fried dough with stuff (pikliz, chicken, beef, eggs, etc) filled inside of it. Chicos is Haitian Cheeto puffs. Grenadia is passion fruit. Limonade is a really sweet pop that makes great slushes. Fruit Champagne doesn’t have any alcohol in it and it tastes like a liquid Juicy Fruit. Sekola is a watery lemon lime drink. Tampico and Ju Goo are fruit drinks.

                                                                                                        

Looking back on the past eleven months, there were many good and bad times. During the difficult times we lean on God and fall on our Savior. There are also times to cry and times to laugh. Times with friends and times with family. Although there are hard times, we really have enjoyed living here in Haiti. Some of our favorite memories are… showering on the roof in the rain, watching meteor showers on the roof with Laura and Ybene (missionary friends), walking to school for several days, sleeping on the roof, meeting some amazing friends, and many more. Here on the mainland we have already made many memories like beautiful balcony sunsets, having friends stay over, family moments that make us laugh and many more.

                                                            

We came to do God’s work and continue to plug away. We are very thankful for all of our friends and family who have helped us through everything. 

1 Thessalonians 2:13 And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe.