Had I understood the choices at hand, I may not have chosen to have these beautiful children when there is so much exciting work to be done in the world. The days I have time to pursue my other interests are the same days that I feel okay about choosing also motherhood. Here, we attempt to blog about our 5-year-old's questions AND our own questions/ideas around issues that we need to be involved in to complement our parenting.
Here's a little tree just planted by these 5 eco-activists (students in the MCC-supported enviro-ed. program) from the town of Lejan. Planting is part 1. Part 2 is protecting from animals, in particular, the goat. Most Haitians have nicknames, including our little Gabriela. We call her Gabri or "Kabrit" or "ti Kabrit" which means little goat. Here's the little Gabriela goat. . . will she make it through the homemade barrier to this little mahogany tree?
soo here's something new-- Gabriela and Matt stayed in Port a day while I travelled back to Dezam to co-facilitate with Nahomie and Frantzo our last Fòmasyon Pwofesè Anviwònman (Environment Teacher's Training) so I had no one to film but everyone but Gabriela. For our trainings, the teachers become their students so we do everything w/ them that they will do w/ their students. Last year we were the water cycle; this year I asked the teachers(students) to write songs w/ at least these 6 words in them: 1. sun 2. cloud 3. rain 4. river 5. roots 6. tree
Of course, I provided the first example, using the melody of the "Im Nasyonal" (National Anthem) which by the way is really has great words I'd love to teach you sometime, but for today we MCCers (Nahomie- whose natural musical talents are not fairly represented here, Frantzo, and me) are up first and then the teachers take it away with their own song composed in 5 mintues.
Just stumbled across a pretty interesting photography project going on with students here in Haiti. Here is an excerpt from the website http://www.rocksandtrees.ca/haiti/index.html
