Today I joined a group of people from a parish in Iowa who went to home for children who are sick run by Mother Theresa's sisters.  Volunteers can go at certain times to play with the children and hold the babies. It was a good experience.  The children were beautiful.  Some appeared to be so much younger than their actual ages, which was sad; a few of them seemed quite sickly. Playing with them was quite enjoyable. 

We have many beautiful things here at Matthew 25 hospitality house, which are made by local artisans which we sell to the people who stay here.  The items are quite varied and of great quality.  Everytime I go in the room where the itmes are kept I see somthing new and feel amazed.  Some of the paintings seem to me to be of the same quality as the ones hanging in the art exhibit we went to during the Haitian Summer Insititue at the museum on campus at FIU.

Yesterday they said that the cistern is full, a rarity here, so we don't have to be quite as careful about water usage as usual at the moment.  The rain at night seems to cool everything off, but it does create a lot of  mud and can cause difficulties for the many people living in the tents.