Here it is Sunday and I slept all night without pain! Praise the Lord. I think if I'm real careful, the injured back is definitely on the mend, but riding in the truck is out for a while. I don't know if you can imagine being jostled, violently, but if you can you know a back cannot take that kind of treatment........even a good back!! We have a KIA, single cab, flatbed that we use for everything. It's my dream to have a smaller vehicle for short trips, such as downtown to the store. I have a friend who just bought a mo-ped. She's brave and ten years younger than I. It took her about two weeks to feel comfortable but, she's brave......I've thought of a donkey but I think that would be just as detrimental (if not more)to one's spine as the truck, just easier to get around?? It looks funny to see donkey's in town but they are there. Between bicycles, mo-peds, walkers, big trucks and cars, and no speed laws, no stop signs, no traffic lights, no line down the middle of the street, driving is hazardous to say the least. Then there are speed bumps, called "police cushays" which means "policeman laying down" ......they are intermitant thorough out town. On the side streets, rather than being raised up they become a canal. People have to do something to slow down traffic or no one would ever survive a walk to market. It's quite interesting to say the least and if one is to be jostled, they will be for sure. Add to that pot holes and being passed on the wrong side by mo-peds just as you are trying to pull over to the side to let one of the students off.
Today I'm having company, which will be a nice reprieve while taking it easy on my back. Dinner was in the freezer so that's not a big deal. Cabbage rolls that I managed to make last week sometime. Cabbage is abundant here and it's what we eat for salad, rather than lettuce which we don't get very often. The cabbage rolls idea came to mind as I wondered what would become of all the cabbage Elliant bought a week ago at Pont Sonde market. We use it for school lunches, Rose making picklees, a hot mixture of carrots, cabbage, peppers, sort of like cole slaw, but hot and a bit sour rather than sweet which is a side garnish to rice and beans. Anyway, Elliant is trying to impress us with her ability to buy and she buys too many heads of cabbage. I still have three more in the refrigerator after a huge pot of cabbage rolls and a big salad yesterday. We eat with the school everyday except Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Those are our American food days. It's not like what you think. Most things are improvised to be what they would be in the States and I can't run to the store and get what I don't have. Usually, the store in town doesn't have much. With Saturday Bible school, we don't have the option of going to Port au Prince, where you can get most anything in the food line, imported from the States or other places.
It's time to move on from this place and make some sense out of today, hopefully accomplishing a few things, like organizational things. We watch Family Harvest Church service via internet at 10:30AM. It's a highlight for us, and where we get fed, since the rest of the week is giving out. God is good and we Praise Him for the work He's doing to bring my back in line with the Word of God. I wonder if I dare pray for deliverance from being jostled in the truck?