Spring Break Shenanigans …

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Well, for those of you who didn’t know, last week was our official Sonlight Academy Spring Break.  Spring break has always been a glorious time of year, but my previous point-of-view has been that of a student.  Now, for the first time, I was able to experience Spring Break from a teacher’s perspective; and let me tell you Spring Break was almost sweeter to me as a teacher than it was to me as a student.  I am pretty sure Lorraine feels the same.  Whatever the case, Spring Break was an extremely relaxing and restful time for Lorraine and I, but it did not come completely without some action.

Our Spring Break first started off by Lorraine and I moving into a new residence.  One of the missionaries, whom has been here for 10 years left to go the Dominican Republic on a spiritual retreat and allowed us to stay in her apartment.  This was great for Lorraine and I, because this allowed to have our own kitchen and to cook our own food.  Previously, we had been eating all of our meals at Roger and Norma’s, the founding missionaries, which has been good, but it is good to have a break and be on our own for food.  So we moved some of our stuff from our other room over to April’s and enjoyed several days with some space to ourselves.

That same day, Good Friday, I attended a Good Friday service at our Haitian Church.  This service included several special things: a play from some of our high school students, a song performed by our 8th Graders, worship, and a sermon provided by my Bible College friend and Director Lenny Lowe.  This service was extremely long, and lasted around 2 and a half hours.  Wow!  Plus, there was not seat in the whole place; they had to continuously go into classrooms and pull out more chairs.  There were several hundred people there for sure 98 percent of them being Haitian.  Now, I am sure you are wondering how they understood the sermon since it was done by an American, but the Church has an interpreter, who is actually a Bible College student.  I have been to regular Sunday Morning services since I have been here, but none were as crowded as this Good Friday service.  Seeing this many Haitians gather together too celebrate the death and Resurrection of Christ was quite an encouraging and inspiring thing.

One last thing for this post and then I will add a Spring Break part two later on …

Keeping in theme with Church, I had the wonderful privilege of giving the Communion meditation this last Sunday at the early morning service.  I will say that I was a little nervous, even though I had done this before, because the procedure and the structure the communion meditation is slightly different at the Church here.  I was basically worried that I would mess things up.  I didn’t, of course, but I was still worried.  The message itself went pretty well, and for the first time I communicated publicly with the help of an interpreter.  Now this was interesting.  It is hard to get into a rhythm when you are waiting for the person to communicate your words into a different language; and so in that way it felt rather limiting.  However, it was a great experience and I will look forward to doing it again, which coincidentally is two weeks.  Anyways, communicating through an interpreter is something that I am not used to, but I am grateful to have had the experience.

Look for more Spring Break Shenanigans in Part two …