The week's off to a pretty good start! The week-end went by really quickly; we went shopping on Saturday, and had plenty of time for relaxing, hanging out, playing the Bean game (gotta love that Bean game) and playing with the kids. We even managed to get a bit of volcano talk in; one of the other volunteer's brother just got back here from the Congo, where he was staying right beside this wicked volcano called Nyiragongo. It's one of only 5 volcanoes in the world which currently have a lava lake (basically an open pool of molten magma in its crater). The lava lake was last catastrophically drained in 2002, and because of the unusually fluid nature of this lava, it rushed down the volcano's slopes at over 100km/h, and caused some pretty serious devastation. Anyhoo, speaking of geology, the rocks around here are pretty boring; almost everything is limestone (apparently parts of Haiti are basalt though too). No volcanoes, which is unfortunate for me, but probably quite fortunate for the Haitian people, who are probably plagued by enough natural disasters already.

In other news, a bunch of the kids got shuffled around in the nurseries this weekend. As the kdis get older, they get moved from the NICU (for babies) to Nursery A (usually for older babies who can't yet walk) to Nursery B then to the "Big Nursery." One of my little guys had the misfortune of being moved from Nursery A to the Big Nursery in one go. He looks so much smaller than all the other kids, and didn't seem too happy about it, but hopefully he'll adjust quickly. One thing about the kids here is that they're all really tough and resilient, much more so than your typical canadian kids. They can fall flat on they face and get right back up, smiling all the while. Hmm except when it comes to vaccinations and drawing blood, then they all scream their heads off like all kids would. :)