Rainy Season

Its rainy season in Haiti! The dusty winter is gone and instead we have puddles and humidity...its a lovely change. I gave the kids a homeschool assignment to write a poem on rain. I enjoyed reading their perspective, I hope you do too.  Here they are:

Landen:


I like the rain because it makes everything green.


The green makes the plants beautiful.


When rain is coming it smells good.


I smell the water in the air.


But when your dog's poop gets wet it smells bad.


Once a crazy guy put his goat in the rain to grow.


That's a silly thing to think that a goat will grow in the rain.

Sierra:


It was so dark it was like God had turned the lights off to the earth. Everyone ha disappeared hours ago. Sealing up their homes so it couldn't get in, then all they could do was wait. Tick, tock, tick, tock. Then suddenly it came crashing down like a flood. Trying to get into everything.


There was a certain beauty to it, the Rain. The way it helped things grow and make things green. Once I was told if you put your goat in the Rain it would grow, but I kn ow its not true. Sometimes I feel like I am the only one that understands that we need it, the Rain. It doesn't destroy like they think it does, it brings life in many ways. I don't think they realize they need it to live, to help grow their crops, to cook their food, and they need it for drinking water tooo. The Rain is very important and its very beautiful.

Austin:


Trickle, tinkle, tick, tack,is the sound of the rain in the back.


Splish, splash, drip, drip it keeps falling from up top.


It seems to be bullets from the sky hitting metal with a bang.


They dare not stop to say bye because they like to fall and fly.


The rain is good to other things and turns them happy and green with life.


But when the rain comes from the sky all the people run and hide.


Because when the sky is dark and gray they always dare not stay.


The rain is good for all life even though it comes at night.

(Photo borrowed from another missionary's post). 

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