Last year, I had mentioned I was taking a Creole class. We didn't start right away last year because we had to wait for Cara and Thom to fly in. They had a baby and couldn't come at the start of school. Cara teaches the Creole class so we didn't begin until about October. This year, she is teaching it again, so I started over. It is nice because I am pretty much a repeat offender and get a second chance at making the material really sink in. We have gotten a little further this year than we were last year so I am starting to learn a few new words. We just had our Creole test and I am waiting to see what I got. I am sure I did well, but we'll see about that!
This week, we had a few guys, Grant and Ken, fly in from Florida to work on the generator. We had one up and running, but the other generator was broken. They repaired it over the course of two weeks and it is now up and running. Well, it was. They flew out Saturday morning and it was working great. By Saturday night, a few hours after I emailed my newsletter mentioning that both were good, they had both stopped working. The one we had been using, which was leaking oil, will not start. Hopefully, it is a minor issue, once we find out what the cause is. As for the second generator, the one Ken and Grant had fixed, it stopped around 8:00PM Saturday night. At that point, I didn't know that both were down. I figured it had shut off from overheating or some simple problem. This happens from time to time and within ten to fifteen minutes, it restarts. Well, that didn't happen so I went to bed around 9:30 hoping it would come back on. I woke up in the middle of the night to see that everything was still off.
I got up this morning, showered (bucket bath, really) and then went to church. As I entered the school gate, I noticed that John had the small (and I mean small) generator out. That is bad news. This little generator can barely power all of our refrigerators if that's all we run. I could see John was hard at work, so I kept going to church as I didn't want to be the 50th person to ask him what was wrong. Afterward, I went to the generator room to see if I could help. They had the generator pulled off of the engine and I figured that they could use some good humor if anything. I went home, ate, changed and headed back. Fortunately for us, it only took about four hours of work and it started right back up. For those of you who know this stuff, there were a few bolts that connect the aperture of the generator to the engine which had been severed. This most likely happened because the generator wasn't bolted down securely in two places causing it to vibrate too much. As of now, the one is working. Hopefully, the second will be diagnosed and fixed soon! We're just happy to have power!
About Me
- DJodts
- I have created this blog to share the stories of my trip to Haiti as a missionary at Sonlight Ministries as I will be teaching Algebra, Geometry, Adv. Math as well as 6th grade math. Sonlight Ministries was started by Roger and Norma Alexander in 1985 after their second year in Haiti. Before moving to Haiti I have visited four times on one week trips to volunteer with anything that was needed. This mainly consisted of construction work as groups from my church, WRCC, have helped build a new multipurpose building for Sonlight which will be called SonCenter. Construction isn’t the only type of work. Some like to spend time in the classrooms interacting with the students as teachers aides or sitting in the hall with a student one-on-one to help with grammar, math, etc. Groups have also helped with numerous tasks such as painting inside houses, outside houses, and rooftops. If you enjoy helping others and would ever consider visiting please let me know; it is a life changing experience.
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