Both xtremes

Today started in a fun way
Usually I wake early but this am at 5:30 I was woken by voices singing. From the rooftop of the hotel I can see tents in every direction I look. Some are large communities like the one fin by Venezuela while others are just a few in the street. So many are pitched on pavement. Anyways the singing seemed to come from one of the larger groups.
I took my backpack,which I now perform out of up onto the roof to organize and repack. I love the morning watching jacmel once again return to its busy pace. I watch the woman across the street set up her little stand, complete with charcoal fire upon which she fries a wonderful dough filled with a mixture of veg and sauce, just a little spicy.
I was about to go on my am wander when I saw Alcina and Trevor, the team from ABS TV, who said they going out to shoot a intro for their latest piece. I thought it woulg be fun to go with them, I thought just across the street but Trevor said he wanted to go up the hill to a nearby tent site. When we arrived a man was sitting on a porch of a heavily damaged playing a guitar, such a nice sound to hear. Alciana bemoaned the fact that there so few kids around, but they are all in school. A few women sat under a tent canopy doing laundry. 5 tiny children were with them. Of the three of us, I am the only one who speaks any French, I'm getting bolder about jumping into conversation. She wanted to hold a child while doing her intro. I did't arrange one, I got three, so many she had to sit on a little rickety chair they lent her. It turned out great.
I was being taken to a school for their morning break somewhere near the port. I was ready to go so went outside the hotel to wait. There were a few young men sitting on a totalled car that sits half off the road, waiting to be removed at some future date. I went over and chatted with them. They wanted a trick so I did some sleight of hand with a coin and a little juggling. Very playful. A man joined and said thar he could arrange for me to go to the scoop that is just down he road. I see the children arriving inthe am in their clean dark blue uniforms. Next thing I know is that we abandoned plan A and within about ten minutes I have an audience of 175 children from 6-15 yrs. This was the first indoors performance I've done here and the laughter and clapping was like thunder and rain. Vendors and passerbys crowds the doorways to catch a glimpse of the fun.
From there we walked up the hill toward the river to the hospital.