"Another good day at the clinic...."

It' not hard to get motivated when you see all the people walking up the mountain heading to the clinic...we had as many people waiting to be seen today as we did yesterday...they come and wait to be seen, and for the most part, they do this in near 100 degree heat....hour after hour they wait....and after that, they enter into the clinic...(if they are fortunate enough to be seen.....) with a smile on their face...just grateful that they can receive some help....(so very humbling to witness first hand this type of patience, grace and humility....) :)

(Above) Knowing that they will be there most of the day, they come ready to make a day of it....and that means a "Haitian cook-out"...(actually these are venders that sell the food to make what they can....not sure what they are eating, but it involves alot of deep frying...)

I love the candid shots I am able to get from the people as they wait to enter the clinic...but my favorites are the ones of the children...the expressions make me wonder, "what are they really thinking about all of this..." Is this an expression of "worry"??....

Or maybe "determination"?! Either way, they have a unique and wonderful spirit of hope that just shines thru each one of them....young and old.

Regardless, I am pretty sure I am probably the only one of my "family" group taking this trip seriously..... ;)

On a closing note, Matthew, Deb and I made it up the mountain walking yesterday....(that' Matthew "pluggin" away....while I am taking pics and "pacing myself"....) and then Matthew and I did it again today...(glutton' for punishment I guess....) I would love to call it training for the upcoming mini-marathon...but Matthew informed me that the "mini" was much more draining than the mountain....(now that' just not good news at all....) :(