I’m Singing in the Rain - M’ap Chante nan Lapli… Church Service
26 March 2007Greetings to my friends in Idaho and readers elsewhere!
Have you ever been to a Church service in a partially completed cement building with a leaky roof? Where there enough chairs for everyone, and was there standing room? Last night was the last revival service for the guest preacher, he’s preached for 1 hour + every night for a whole month. The man is a great preacher, he uses a lot of expression and talks with his hands. He even walks down the isles at times. You might catch him laying down in the middle of a serman - to make a point. He can be seen jumping up and down or bent over like an old man, you might see him try to fly or walk on clouds. I’ll admit, it’s a little hard to understand why he’s doing these crazy things when I don’t speak the language, but I’ve learned to catch on to the jist of it by paying attention and listening for words I do know.
Well, the rest of the story is, we had no gas for the truck last night so we walked to church. It’s about 3 miles give or take a little. Minnie and I walked with Cedieu and his Dad, and about half way there, the rain started. It poured! I just sayed “Alelujah” as the Haitian’s do, and started singing my crazy Creole song that says “I’m singing, I’m walking, I’m sleeping, I’m wet” Actually, it says whatever I want it to. Just start with I’m singing, and add whatever new words I’ve learned. Cedieu knows it pretty well now, so he sang along. We arrived at church dripping wet, and mean dripping. It took the first 2 hours of the service to stop dripping, then the last 2 hours we were just wet. Haitian’s like to get excited at church. They clap and dance and sing really loud. 250 people singing in a a packed room is pretty neat. I try to sing along, but mostly don’t know what I’m saying unless I’m reading it from the hymnal. You never know when a song will be in the hymnal, and nobody announces the page numbers!
Stumble it!
3 Responses to “I’m Singing in the Rain - M’ap Chante nan Lapli… Church Service”
March 27th, 2007 at 11:57 am
That sounds like fun!
April 5th, 2007 at 12:55 am
Hey Yap parle bien!! Hope all is going well for you and I’m proud of you for trying the Creole. Scott and I have really been talking about everything and he’s wanting to come back down soon. Take care - Allen
April 6th, 2007 at 9:51 am
Mesi Allen! Mwen pale avec tout moun, toupatou la! It will be great if you can come on back here. I am getting ready to return home to Idaho on the 17th, but I think I will come back. I’m sure we’ll have some reason to link up some ideas in the future. Let me know how that other trip you are planning goes.
Hey, Pat was telling me that one thing that would be really nice here is bycicles. If Scott comes up with a plan for a shipping container for those washers, maybe you could pale about some (20 inch) second hand bycicles for the kids/trycicles too. Just a thought if theres room! ttyl - Mary