Bon Bagay is a common phrase used for, well... everything. It's almost as popular as OMG for tween girls. It basically means "good thing". The local band Prestige's catchphrase is bon bagay, Erin was called a bon bagay, but mostly we hope our printing is worthy of a "BON BAGAY!".
One patient who was working on walking with her new prosthetic leg traced her picture on a transparency which we turned into a print. She was very excited about the printing process and tomorrow she will get to use the screen we burned of her drawing! Hopefully we can get close to every patient at Hanger to do this.
We printed some other portraits of patients and attempted flags on teeshirts. Everyone was pysched about printing on shirts and being able to wear clothing they made.
We also decided that young school children here are probably our favorite people in the world. They're funny, happy, and love following us around often calling us "blanc!" (white!). Part of us wants to call back and say "nwa!" (black!) for fun...but is that offensive?
We also played tennis today with the local Haitian teacher, Walter. He has become a friend over the past few years and is a great player. Miller impressed the boys hanging around the courts with his crazay skillz and proved that yes, artsy people can play sports (occasionally). Erin didn't fare so well... but she was entertaining to everyone watching and produced many many cries of "OUT!" from the crowd.
One print was really funny. This man drew a dog with a bone going into its tent, or something like that. This is pretty random considering the dog in the picture looks almost like a dalmatian and all the dogs in Deschapelles are wild, skinny little mutts that run around eating trash.
Oreos are calling us. Saved treasures from the US... it's probably the heat that makes us crave it so much here.
Over and out.
Meellah et Ereen
(That's how they say it at least)
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