Jensi is my prayer partner. He prayed for me a month before I came and we spent time together when I was there. I loved this idea because it let me have a natural connection with one of the boys without trying to find it.
Jensi reminds me so much of myself. I'll share some memories we had. When he first came out to say my name and give me a gift he was wearing a tie die T-shirt. This made me smile. He was also very shy in saying my name. This gives me flash backs of when I was shy. One of my favorite memories was on a night when a storm brought me to the roof. I love to listen to them. Josh was up there already and we just sat and watched the lightning come closer. Jensi then came up to the roof and I asked him if he thought it would rain. I asked by acting it out because I don't speak Creole and he doesn't speak English. Then I started to do the typical Indian rain dance. He laughed and didn't know what I was doing but joined in along with Josh. Then Jensi started to do some of his Haitian dance moves. Josh and I tried to follow but were a little shy in going all out. Soon we were laughing and dancing like fools. In that moment I felt blessed. Here we were just dancing, laughing, and just letting go of all the walls between us. Playing. It was amazing and I'm sure we looked really stupid but we didn't care. Jensi was talking in Creole and we were talking even though we didn't understand each other. I didn't matter.
Here I finally found some time to sit down with Jensi and figure out a way to communicate with him. I pulled out my journal and started to draw. We drew our families witch was painful because I knew he just lost his dad and mom. We then went to animals but the cool thing was we would say the names in each language. I loved to watch him and from that time on he would come to me with a pin in hand ready for more.
It amazed me at how fast he let me in and loved me. He would always want to spend time with me and was so hungry for attention that he would wake me up from a nap just so we could sit in silence together on the roof. He has such a sweat heart and he will always be a close friend and brother.
