Soccer Camp

Last week there was soccer camp. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Soccer camp is camp where you play soccer all day, every day. I didn't go to play soccer though. Neither did the team. We went to help with soccer camp for other children, not us.Before the soccer started, they also did a clinic.

Everyday after the kids played soccer they heard Pastor tell a story and then they ate dinner. They ate rice and hotdogs or chicken and beans. They drank juice.

I help pass out stuff.

I passed out water. One time I was so in a hurry to give out a water I slipped. I passed out juice. I passed out food. And one time I sang a song.

Love,
Nia

Here I am passing out juice.

Helping pass out water and drinking some water.

Sitting in the trailer with the team.

Singing a song.

My Alliteration book

My friends,

My alliteration book was fun to do. I finished it today. An alliteration is a sentence where each word begins with the same letter or sound.

I wrote and illustrated it. We did every letter of the alphabet in order.

Here's a few pictures from it.






Here are the alliterations I chose for each letter.

• Annie ate an awesome apple.
• Bobby's brown bed became blue.
• Connie's cat can claw curtains.
• Donnie's dog does dishes.
• Ellie Elephant eats everything.
• Fritzie Freff feels fuzzy feathers.
• Gail gives good girls great gum.
• Henry has honey ham.
• In India, Ida ices icky iguanas.
• Joyful Jennifer jumps jelly.
• King Ken kissed kind kittens.
• Lila Loose loves ladybug's laughs.
• Mikey's mom makes more music.
• Nico's niece, Nia, naps noisily.
• Old octopi own orange olives.
• Peter Pan paints pennies pink.
• Queen Quack quilts quickly.
• Ryan ropes rare rabbits.
• Sammie sips strawberry soda.
• Tink Toodles talks tough.
• Uncle Ulysses unties underwear.
• When will William Wong want wonderful wontons?
• Xavier xrays xylophones.
• Yolanda yawns yellow yarn.
• Zachary zips zero zippers.

This book took me a long time to do. We started over a year ago and finally finished today.

I am sad and happy that I finished the book. I am sad because I can't do it anymore. I am happy because I finished it.

Love,
Nia

Teams

My friends,

I just found out, well, not I JUST found out, but a couple of days ago I found out I have a loose tooth. Actually, 2 loose teeth.

This is what I really wanted to talk about. It's so amazing how much teams have come. There's four that's come in the past weeks and days. Some of their names were Mia, Molly, Jack, Mr. Dave, Mrs. Vicky. Doris and Janice today. Brenda and Brittany and Amanda and Jarius. Maybe some other people from North Carolina too, but I can't remember their names.

We're having good times with them being here. One group made screens for the windows in the orphanage. Another group checked our teeth and taught a class on how we can brush our teeth properly.

It's kind of good having a lot of teams here because I don't get to speak English a lot and I am forgetting my English. That's bad. Sometimes I forget some English words and I can only remember what they are in Kreyol and then I have to ask mommy to remind me what they are in English. So I really like teams because I can practice my English.

I can't think of anything else to say about teams.

Love, Nia

List of favorites

• favorite food- Macaroni and cheese

• favorite color- pink or purple

• favorite movie- Dr. Doolittle

• favorite song- Happy Day

• favorite place to be- restaurant

• favorite music group- crosspointe

• favorite brother- can't say, but the cutest brother is Josiah

• favorite sister- can't say, but the cutest sister is Wildarne

• favorite mom- my mom

• favorite dad- my dad

• favorite car- our car

• favorite toy- baby doll

• favorite game to play- Pet shop (I have had Pet Shop for 2 years)

• favorite Bible verse- Phillipians 2:4 (I only know it in Creole though)

• favorite thing to do on the weekend- crafts

• favorite sport- t-ball

• favorite teacher- can't say because my teacher right now is my mom

• favorite thing I hope to get for my birthday on July 1- craft stuff, because I am kind of like an artist

Love,
Nia

Surprise!

Dear my friends,

Didn't I surprise you doing this? I was planning to do this because I wanted to trick you. No, I really wasn't planning to not do it in a long time, I just forgot.

My life has changed a lot. I don't know how much has changed, but I feel different. I feel different because I have too many people to talk to. I have to play whatever they tell me to play. These people are my sisters and brothers.

These are my brothers and sisters names:
Jean Louis- he's very funny
Jerry- he's very naughty
Fritzie- the oldest kid in the family
Yves- has had three boils on his body since we've had him
Wildarne- likes to play babies a lot
Prisca- I know how to spell her name
Nico- The same as Jean Louis
Josiah- fè dezod (makes trouble)
Then there's me. Nia Mangine. I like to do the right things.

I know how to speak Kreyol now. Like this, "blah blah blah blah." (just kidding.)

Okay. I will try to blog tomorrow. Maybe I will take some pictures. Of Haiti. Where I live.

Love,
Nia

All about babies like Dave

A couple of days ago I met a baby called Dave and his mother was named Michoue. I held the baby and I have a picture of that. He’s a nice cute little baby and I liked holding him. He was little and a tiny chubby, He was really cute, which I already said that, didn’t I? I really liked him and when Anise’s baby was born, which is one of Danny’s nannies, Nico said to my mom, “We have a new baby now!” And mom said, “No, it’s Anise’s baby.” And Nico said, “But Anise is going to come live with us now right?” And mommy said, “No.” And Nico understood that he wasn’t our baby.

Babies are cute but I don’t like when they spit up on me. I bet you don’t like that too. That’s enough about babies. And that’s enough on my blog post today. I didn’t want to talk about a lot. Just babies. Cause they are really cute.

Love,

Nia

How things are back in Haiti

Hey my friends,

I have had fun back in Haiti. You know I met Jean Louis because I mentioned it last time.

For the first time in a long time yesterday I went to the beach. It was good. The water was rough so we couldn't go in deep and there was a lot of seaweed. The Haitian people call the seaweed "fatra" which is the same word for trash.

Whiskey, who is one of Nixon's boys, he went out too deep and pulled out cause the ocean got really strong. He almost drowned. And then Mr. Danny and my dad were brave enough to go out and get him. And they helped him swim back. And everyone was okay. I really like that Whiskey came back and didn't drown. It was a little scary. My mom has told me that could happen and so that's why we're not allowed to go in deep unless she or daddy is holding me.

When I heard the name Whiskey that my mom said, I didn't really remember which boy of Nixon's he really was. But I know him now.

I have had a fun time at school today. I ate peanut butter toast for breakfast, but I didn't eat all of it because the peanut butter made my tummy hurt. I actually didn't even eat the toast, I just took some finger licks of the peanut butter. Prisca reminded me about the peanut butter and so I took another lick and she was right-- it WAS the peanut butter that made my tummy hurt. It's better now. Do you know how it tasted different? It actually didn't taste different, it just FELT different in my mouth. It was really light not thick.

I am sorry, the connection is really slow and we can't do pictures, but I will try to take some this afternoon and maybe I can share some on tomorrow or Wednesday.

I hope that you are doing good.

Bye.

Love,
Nia