Visit Deaf school in Cabaret and Leveque...

Today was a big day for our team.  We started with a scenery drive to Grace Village for a stop to pick up someone to join our team as we visited the deaf school in Levesque.  As we arrived by the deaf community, Bob(our deaf leader) were so thrilled to see William (Haitian Deaf Pastor) as they have met 3 years ago. We all were watching him hugging and chatting for quite a while. It was so good to see them re-connect together. We had a tour of the school; many of us split up into groups and visited classes of different grades. These students were in awe and surprised that there are many of us (deaf people) in a group.  They were awestruck that we were deaf and that all of us could sign.  It was fun to see how they interacted with us by asking what our names were, our name signs, and what were our ages.  The facial expressions on their faces when we answered their questions were fun to watch.  Their eyes went wide and their jaws dropped.  They went around asking everyone their names and ages.  They couldn't believe that we came from USA to see them.  After school, we catch up with them at the Haiti Deaf Academy in Cabaret where some of the students had their meals and stayed during the week.  We had a tour of the Academy and met some of the staff there.  We learned their history and their language.
   Some of our favorite moments there were that we are the same (you deaf, me deaf too), when some kids asked how old our parents was/were, one of our team members told the kids his mother was 89 and that his aunt was 102, (Haitian's life expectancy is 55)  they were just dumbfounded and speechless, how the kids were leading some of us to their bedrooms (they were proud to show us where their beds were), how kids were touching us, coming up to us, asking questions, watching the kids pray after classes were done.  As they prayed, it appeared their hearts were seeking God.  It was a beautiful moment to watch and pray with them. 
  We ended the day with an outing to a local pizzeria "Pizza Amour" with Healing Haiti staff, Kesnel and her children and Brunet and his wife and son, but not without experiencing the real Haiti "rush hour".