Well, One month in Haiti. I feel like I am helping and I have a goal here. It i sjust really hard to get anything done here with the power outages, and the traveling on the roads and the lck of internet. It has taken me close to a week just to get to write this blog.
I have helped with a lot smll projects here and there trying to find work to help with. I have in a way become a secretary for a few different groups and I would like to start more of a method to my madness. I have people all over the place that I am "helping" but it has turned into I am just moving stuff all the time.
I think I am going to head out and find something to do today.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Day 29
Day 6 without internet access. I am working from the hotel which has satelite connection to the internet. Hopefully I will be able to get some wok done with what needs to be done.
I have kinda become a secratary for a couple of organizations. It started to rain just now and I need to start working on actual internet things I need to get done.
I have kinda become a secratary for a couple of organizations. It started to rain just now and I need to start working on actual internet things I need to get done.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Day 24
Well, I finally got to a place that has internet. There has been so much that has happened since the last blog. I don't know where to start.
Well, I will start with projects that I know about.
The Port - This project seemed to pick up speed this week. I have been watching the Brazilian UN start to fix the slip so the UN can finally use their boats to patrol the port and guide ships in. This was exciting to see the development and work being started. I have been taking pictures for people there to send out what is needed. So hoping that is helpful.
The maternity clinic - It is actually starting to look more like a clinic. They have been working hard at organizing and moving equipment around so they are set up to continue work. I have only been helping on a manual labor portion of that project. Which is really hard in a hot and humid climate and when you are moving a ton of heavy medical equipment.
Pastor Abraham's School - I spent a four days this week at his school. I worked on hanging curtains between classrooms in the temporary bamboo school structure. He is waiting on the government to say that his concrete building is secure until he moves the classes back inside that building. To me it looks structurally sound, at least 95% better than most building in Jacmel. The parents are nervous to send their children to a concrete building right now. I am starting to make friends with the little kids there and they all seem to know me. He has 625 children in his school. He has a great school here. The curtain hanging was laborish and time consuming considering we had to string the rope through the sheet slash curtain and then tie the rope to bamboo. Some of the other days work there included going to the mountain to get more wood for the school, moving a ton of supplies so that Medair can store some of their housing equipment in the concrete rooms that are not being used. Yleinia painted a chalk board for the school. I loaded Medair trucks to help put up housing that are hurricane and earthquake proof.
Misc - I helped out Cesar one day doing inventory for Medair and moving heavy boxes of tarps all day. I have been trying to help people out with their websites without a real option of internet all week. That has been frustrating, but a reality here in Haiti. I helped relocated Joy in Hope's office this week as well.
All in all this has been a productive week. I feel that I have a ton of small things to do for people and maybe just maybe it will be helpful in the long term. I want to promote Joy in Hope here in Haiti. They are doing great work and have been doing great for years now.
As for what is on the agenda today. I am working currently online and trying to get all the stuff done that I need to get done within two hours this morning. I need to make a visit back to the hospital to see a friend who was in a serious moto accident. Go to Western Union and make it back to the house by 12:30 to go to the beach with Joy in Hope kids.
Personally, I am getting more comfortable walking around Jacmel by myself. Even though yesterday there was a riot and two people were killed in the riot and two others were killed in a truck accident that started the riot. People are nice here and I am getting better and better at Kreole everyday.
Well, I will start with projects that I know about.
The Port - This project seemed to pick up speed this week. I have been watching the Brazilian UN start to fix the slip so the UN can finally use their boats to patrol the port and guide ships in. This was exciting to see the development and work being started. I have been taking pictures for people there to send out what is needed. So hoping that is helpful.
The maternity clinic - It is actually starting to look more like a clinic. They have been working hard at organizing and moving equipment around so they are set up to continue work. I have only been helping on a manual labor portion of that project. Which is really hard in a hot and humid climate and when you are moving a ton of heavy medical equipment.
Pastor Abraham's School - I spent a four days this week at his school. I worked on hanging curtains between classrooms in the temporary bamboo school structure. He is waiting on the government to say that his concrete building is secure until he moves the classes back inside that building. To me it looks structurally sound, at least 95% better than most building in Jacmel. The parents are nervous to send their children to a concrete building right now. I am starting to make friends with the little kids there and they all seem to know me. He has 625 children in his school. He has a great school here. The curtain hanging was laborish and time consuming considering we had to string the rope through the sheet slash curtain and then tie the rope to bamboo. Some of the other days work there included going to the mountain to get more wood for the school, moving a ton of supplies so that Medair can store some of their housing equipment in the concrete rooms that are not being used. Yleinia painted a chalk board for the school. I loaded Medair trucks to help put up housing that are hurricane and earthquake proof.
Misc - I helped out Cesar one day doing inventory for Medair and moving heavy boxes of tarps all day. I have been trying to help people out with their websites without a real option of internet all week. That has been frustrating, but a reality here in Haiti. I helped relocated Joy in Hope's office this week as well.
All in all this has been a productive week. I feel that I have a ton of small things to do for people and maybe just maybe it will be helpful in the long term. I want to promote Joy in Hope here in Haiti. They are doing great work and have been doing great for years now.
As for what is on the agenda today. I am working currently online and trying to get all the stuff done that I need to get done within two hours this morning. I need to make a visit back to the hospital to see a friend who was in a serious moto accident. Go to Western Union and make it back to the house by 12:30 to go to the beach with Joy in Hope kids.
Personally, I am getting more comfortable walking around Jacmel by myself. Even though yesterday there was a riot and two people were killed in the riot and two others were killed in a truck accident that started the riot. People are nice here and I am getting better and better at Kreole everyday.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Day 19
Beginning of the third week. I am tired, dirty and still hot. It is 7 am and I am sweating. We have a dog that barks every night all night long without stopping. It is hard to sleep even with ear plugs. This week will be good training for me because Cesar starts his new job so Yleinia and myself are on our own to get around and find things to help out with. We have a couple options of work that we can do. Yleinia is leaving on Friday. I will be on my own for finding work and such as of next week. I know that will not be a problem here. That is how life goes.
Today we are going to be checking in with Pastor Abraham to see what he needs in order of help and such. It is so much fun to be hanging around the little kids or timoons. I am still picking up Kreole whenever I can. I got to hang out with some Spanish speaking folks on Saturday which was a lot of fun.
Write later!
Today we are going to be checking in with Pastor Abraham to see what he needs in order of help and such. It is so much fun to be hanging around the little kids or timoons. I am still picking up Kreole whenever I can. I got to hang out with some Spanish speaking folks on Saturday which was a lot of fun.
Write later!
Friday, April 16, 2010
Day 16
Wow, It has been a few days. I have been busy the last few days it has be a little crazy around here. I have been working really hard the past two or three days. I did not realize that it was Friday already.
Tuesday we spent the day gathering information about the areas to see where the need was and how we could help out and guess what, we sure started to help out on Wednesday and Thursday. Wednesday we made about 200 portions of rice for local families and handed them out in a very poor area of Jacmel. We gave out rice and peanut butter that one of our friends had on store. It took all day just to get the rice portioned out and then then delivered but it was an amazing feeling. Then we came back to the house and had to go help a friend unload her container form the barge. So we spent the rest of the day moving things.
Thursday, we went ack to Pastor Abraham's school to help move things out of classrooms because another NGO here rented the space to store all the houses that they will build for the people of Jacmel. They will be building 1000 houses for people who do not have a house. It was great to see so many different people working together and to get sweaty and dirty with Haitians. The two guys who are staying at the boarding house with us who are with Global Colors got to start their projects this week as well. This are moving fast here, well Haitian fast. Later in the day we went to Sarah's Clinic and started to unpack her supplies and started organizing that clinic. There is a lot of work to be done there and I plan on helping a lot. Then we took a meeting last night with a friend about some things to do with the port. He had nothing but positive things to say about Cesar. Everyone here loves Cesar.
Today, who knows what today may bring we might be going into the mountains to feed people or going back to Sarah's to help out or whatever. All I know is that I am ready for it and say "Bring it on"
Ciao,
Love and miss everyone!
Tuesday we spent the day gathering information about the areas to see where the need was and how we could help out and guess what, we sure started to help out on Wednesday and Thursday. Wednesday we made about 200 portions of rice for local families and handed them out in a very poor area of Jacmel. We gave out rice and peanut butter that one of our friends had on store. It took all day just to get the rice portioned out and then then delivered but it was an amazing feeling. Then we came back to the house and had to go help a friend unload her container form the barge. So we spent the rest of the day moving things.
Thursday, we went ack to Pastor Abraham's school to help move things out of classrooms because another NGO here rented the space to store all the houses that they will build for the people of Jacmel. They will be building 1000 houses for people who do not have a house. It was great to see so many different people working together and to get sweaty and dirty with Haitians. The two guys who are staying at the boarding house with us who are with Global Colors got to start their projects this week as well. This are moving fast here, well Haitian fast. Later in the day we went to Sarah's Clinic and started to unpack her supplies and started organizing that clinic. There is a lot of work to be done there and I plan on helping a lot. Then we took a meeting last night with a friend about some things to do with the port. He had nothing but positive things to say about Cesar. Everyone here loves Cesar.
Today, who knows what today may bring we might be going into the mountains to feed people or going back to Sarah's to help out or whatever. All I know is that I am ready for it and say "Bring it on"
Ciao,
Love and miss everyone!
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Day 13
Welcome to Haiti all over again. I woke up yesterday excited and ready to start making a dent in the inventory process of the depot and then the depot got dismantled in one day over the weekend because the people were afraid of the government. They said they would arrest anyone working there because the depot was illegal even though the poele setting it up followed the regulations to a T and dotted all 'i's twice.
That is just how it goes down here. So now it is back to square one with all the medicine that was in the depot. It is just now a mess of disorganized mess.
On top of that disheartening news, I twisted my ankle twice within an hour and I was laid up all day being bored. There are a couple other projects I am going to be working on when I get ready to start. I am going to try and help Sara with a spread sheet that she will be able to use for Olive Tree Projects.
You have to be willing to just move and roll with the punches here. On a side note, I think I know when I will be back to the states for a bit. I plan on getting to Ohio right before my sisters wedding and then spending about a week in Canada with Winter then travel from Toronto to LA.
Starting over again, but this time with ideas of what is needed.
That is just how it goes down here. So now it is back to square one with all the medicine that was in the depot. It is just now a mess of disorganized mess.
On top of that disheartening news, I twisted my ankle twice within an hour and I was laid up all day being bored. There are a couple other projects I am going to be working on when I get ready to start. I am going to try and help Sara with a spread sheet that she will be able to use for Olive Tree Projects.
You have to be willing to just move and roll with the punches here. On a side note, I think I know when I will be back to the states for a bit. I plan on getting to Ohio right before my sisters wedding and then spending about a week in Canada with Winter then travel from Toronto to LA.
Starting over again, but this time with ideas of what is needed.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Day 10
Today is my sister's birthday. I am going to try and skype with her in a bit. I'm excited to talk with her.
This place can be overwhelming. I have not blogged much because I have been busy or just tired from all the heat. It is extremely hot here. Michele you were not kidding. I live right in the city and it is so loud that it is hard to sleep without ear plugs every night and the roosters wake people up at 4:30 or 5am. Then the next thing to wake you are the dogs barking and barking. Being that i am a morning person and actually mornings are the quietest time of the day I love it.
I can't describe how people live here. Most people have dirt floors and live under tarps with walls. there is a tent city in Jacmel but I have not seen it. The women of Haiti are amazing, but they don't really talk to us. There was one woman who spoke to us yesterday and it was a rarity. My thoughts are that they don't know English as well. I watch them work each day and the ladies who work at the boarding house I live in are awesome as well. Cooking and cleaning each day are so much work. Then there are the kids to take care of.
I am working on a website for a friend Cesar Jean Charles here who is trying to open a school of Languages for adults. This is where Yleinia and myself have been teaching English. It is difficult to work here doing websites or anything because the web is not running all the time or even most the time. It makes doing that kinda work hard. My Kreole is getting better everyday and I am picking up some French.
I feel what this country needs is education. There are so many people work hard here but now working 'smart' so to say. Little things like meetings and efficiency do not really matter here. It can be so frustrating. Madam Cocot just brought us Chocolate cream of wheat for breakfast. She takes care of us. I am trying to work out a deal with a friend here to pay for a boys schooling for a year. One thing I have taken for granted in my life is free public education. The public schools are not free here. I have only been here a week and I have many many times children want to go to school and they cannot afford to. So if I can I will be paying for one child to have schooling and uniform and housing for a year. I will keep you updated if that is what will happen.
It is amazing to see hundreds of children walking the streets in their uniforms and they all have huge smiles on their faces. Andrew and Ryan with Global Colors are building a school here for children that would not have to pay to attend. One of the first things I did here was help out Pastor Abraham building a temporary school out of bamboo and card board. Parents are still nervous to send their children to concrete housing structures.
All of these issues are just the education issue here. There are so many other issues like the port and trying to get it rebuilt to bring tourism back to the area. and bring money here to help the people. The Haitian people I have had contact with love their country and love Jacmel. Yes they want to visit the United States, but I don't believe they want to live there.
I know that I am having a different experience than other aid groups that come to the area. It is because I am here longer than most other people here. Majority of the groups come here for 10 days and are gone. Where they come for a specific purpose and attain their goal and leave. My task here is to help the Haitian people understand the need for change and educate them to work with the aid groups.
Just in the English class the people there are so thankful for me to be here, so they can learn English and have someone to practice their language skills. My work at the medical depot organizing all the information there and doing data entry so we can have a working depot with free medicine for southern Haiti is important. Teaching the staff there to manage themselves and to work in a way that is efficiency.
I know when I was stateside, I would ask Cesar what do the people need and he would tell me "they need people" I was confused. I get it now. They do not need physical things here in Jacmel. They need people to help get things, businesses, schools up and running again. They need people who can commit to a while here to work through the long process of setting up a depot the right way so it is easy to run. Not just organize things on a shelf call it a day and pack up without teaching them how to inventory or how to manage a staff or how to use the computer system (which is a complicated excel spreadsheet). I know that sounds like they should know how to do all of that but they don't.
So I will do my little part and help when and where I can.
This place can be overwhelming. I have not blogged much because I have been busy or just tired from all the heat. It is extremely hot here. Michele you were not kidding. I live right in the city and it is so loud that it is hard to sleep without ear plugs every night and the roosters wake people up at 4:30 or 5am. Then the next thing to wake you are the dogs barking and barking. Being that i am a morning person and actually mornings are the quietest time of the day I love it.
I can't describe how people live here. Most people have dirt floors and live under tarps with walls. there is a tent city in Jacmel but I have not seen it. The women of Haiti are amazing, but they don't really talk to us. There was one woman who spoke to us yesterday and it was a rarity. My thoughts are that they don't know English as well. I watch them work each day and the ladies who work at the boarding house I live in are awesome as well. Cooking and cleaning each day are so much work. Then there are the kids to take care of.
I am working on a website for a friend Cesar Jean Charles here who is trying to open a school of Languages for adults. This is where Yleinia and myself have been teaching English. It is difficult to work here doing websites or anything because the web is not running all the time or even most the time. It makes doing that kinda work hard. My Kreole is getting better everyday and I am picking up some French.
I feel what this country needs is education. There are so many people work hard here but now working 'smart' so to say. Little things like meetings and efficiency do not really matter here. It can be so frustrating. Madam Cocot just brought us Chocolate cream of wheat for breakfast. She takes care of us. I am trying to work out a deal with a friend here to pay for a boys schooling for a year. One thing I have taken for granted in my life is free public education. The public schools are not free here. I have only been here a week and I have many many times children want to go to school and they cannot afford to. So if I can I will be paying for one child to have schooling and uniform and housing for a year. I will keep you updated if that is what will happen.
It is amazing to see hundreds of children walking the streets in their uniforms and they all have huge smiles on their faces. Andrew and Ryan with Global Colors are building a school here for children that would not have to pay to attend. One of the first things I did here was help out Pastor Abraham building a temporary school out of bamboo and card board. Parents are still nervous to send their children to concrete housing structures.
All of these issues are just the education issue here. There are so many other issues like the port and trying to get it rebuilt to bring tourism back to the area. and bring money here to help the people. The Haitian people I have had contact with love their country and love Jacmel. Yes they want to visit the United States, but I don't believe they want to live there.
I know that I am having a different experience than other aid groups that come to the area. It is because I am here longer than most other people here. Majority of the groups come here for 10 days and are gone. Where they come for a specific purpose and attain their goal and leave. My task here is to help the Haitian people understand the need for change and educate them to work with the aid groups.
Just in the English class the people there are so thankful for me to be here, so they can learn English and have someone to practice their language skills. My work at the medical depot organizing all the information there and doing data entry so we can have a working depot with free medicine for southern Haiti is important. Teaching the staff there to manage themselves and to work in a way that is efficiency.
I know when I was stateside, I would ask Cesar what do the people need and he would tell me "they need people" I was confused. I get it now. They do not need physical things here in Jacmel. They need people to help get things, businesses, schools up and running again. They need people who can commit to a while here to work through the long process of setting up a depot the right way so it is easy to run. Not just organize things on a shelf call it a day and pack up without teaching them how to inventory or how to manage a staff or how to use the computer system (which is a complicated excel spreadsheet). I know that sounds like they should know how to do all of that but they don't.
So I will do my little part and help when and where I can.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Day 8
What is in store for today....
Well more inventory at the depot. I am going to try to set up dinner with Winter tonight, which we have been trying to get together for a while and I might attempt to go out tonight for the first time with Winter.
I keep meeting people who are here who are planning to stay a long time here. I think that is really cool. My friend from the Medical depot is planning on moving here. I dont what else. Tonight I will have time to work on the websites for people.
Later!
Well more inventory at the depot. I am going to try to set up dinner with Winter tonight, which we have been trying to get together for a while and I might attempt to go out tonight for the first time with Winter.
I keep meeting people who are here who are planning to stay a long time here. I think that is really cool. My friend from the Medical depot is planning on moving here. I dont what else. Tonight I will have time to work on the websites for people.
Later!
Day 7
Well yesterday, I woke up and went to the medical depot around 9am to start working on the inventory of the supplies that we get left from the medical teams leaving the country. It is quite the process to get this stuff inventoried and stocked, having methods that are not so great. I really like this work though. I love organizing things. So with all being side, I am happy about doing it and I feel like me doing this will help save lives.
We went to teach last night again. I have a little following of Haitians who want to talk to me all the time, they want me to teach their class when it really is Yleinia's thing. I am just going to help her out. So I try to fade into the background and let her do her thing. We all know what a struggle it can be for me to try and fade, but I am working on it.
Immediate needs of the country, boy it is hard to say right now. I am here when the phases are changing from relief efforts to recovery and construction efforts. There are needs for education of the people to start their own businesses and start rebuilding Haiti on their own. Being in Jacmel is different than anywhere else in the country. Life seems pretty normal here. I have not seen the tent city in Jacmel, but every night I see the lights from the refugee camp through the trees. Even last night when the whole neighborhood was dark from the rain storm the camp still had light.
I am finding a ton of things that need to be done but they are not really relief efforts to more of rebuilding efforts. I am still working on Kreole
We went to teach last night again. I have a little following of Haitians who want to talk to me all the time, they want me to teach their class when it really is Yleinia's thing. I am just going to help her out. So I try to fade into the background and let her do her thing. We all know what a struggle it can be for me to try and fade, but I am working on it.
Immediate needs of the country, boy it is hard to say right now. I am here when the phases are changing from relief efforts to recovery and construction efforts. There are needs for education of the people to start their own businesses and start rebuilding Haiti on their own. Being in Jacmel is different than anywhere else in the country. Life seems pretty normal here. I have not seen the tent city in Jacmel, but every night I see the lights from the refugee camp through the trees. Even last night when the whole neighborhood was dark from the rain storm the camp still had light.
I am finding a ton of things that need to be done but they are not really relief efforts to more of rebuilding efforts. I am still working on Kreole
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Day 6
I started the day working at the medical depot helping organize a shipment that came in over the holiday weekend. I am going to help the lady in charge of the depot with an database of all the equipment and supplies that are coming into the depot and leaving the depot.
I think I will like this kinda work during the morning and then I will work at the school in the evening. The afternoon, I will take as nap time. That is when it is the hottest here. I would love to open a dive shop/ cool hang out place on the coast near the docks. There are an awesome set of ship wreaks close to shore that would be fun dive spots.
I might start researching that.
I think I will like this kinda work during the morning and then I will work at the school in the evening. The afternoon, I will take as nap time. That is when it is the hottest here. I would love to open a dive shop/ cool hang out place on the coast near the docks. There are an awesome set of ship wreaks close to shore that would be fun dive spots.
I might start researching that.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Day 5
Found out that I might be teaching English tomorrow, but I don't know if that is what I want to do. I will think about this and figure out if that is what I want to do. It will not happen until night time. I need to go back to the hospital tomorrow to see what I can do there.
I know the hospital need diapers, wipes, sheets, and I will be getting a list tomorrow when I get there. I need to go to a meeting tonight at CCH to meet up with a doctor there to get that list.
We will see what happens after that. I fixed a wireless connection for someone today as well.
I know the hospital need diapers, wipes, sheets, and I will be getting a list tomorrow when I get there. I need to go to a meeting tonight at CCH to meet up with a doctor there to get that list.
We will see what happens after that. I fixed a wireless connection for someone today as well.
Day 4 & 5
Easter Sunday
Woke up and spent the day relaxing and trying to figure out when the barge was planning on getting here. This barge with supplies and needed equipment to really start working was supposed to be here on about 6 different occasions. Well, it did not show up again. The schooner though from Holland showed up with food from the world food program. It was pretty neat to see a real life sailing ship that had no electric power what so ever. Pretty impressive that is sailed completely across the Atlantic without any power besides wind power, when the barge from America is not here yet.
Took another family to the beach today as well. There was an accident where a moto hit a person on the street and a fight started. It is averaging about a fight in the streets every other day. It was awesome to see the Christians set up make shift parties everywhere with Haitian christian music.
Well off to check out a school, I might start teaching English at later.
Woke up and spent the day relaxing and trying to figure out when the barge was planning on getting here. This barge with supplies and needed equipment to really start working was supposed to be here on about 6 different occasions. Well, it did not show up again. The schooner though from Holland showed up with food from the world food program. It was pretty neat to see a real life sailing ship that had no electric power what so ever. Pretty impressive that is sailed completely across the Atlantic without any power besides wind power, when the barge from America is not here yet.
Took another family to the beach today as well. There was an accident where a moto hit a person on the street and a fight started. It is averaging about a fight in the streets every other day. It was awesome to see the Christians set up make shift parties everywhere with Haitian christian music.
Well off to check out a school, I might start teaching English at later.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Day 3
Was up late last night and up super early this morning. The mornings are the best in Jacmel. We are staying right in the city and it is loud and crazy at all times of the day. This morning there was a fight amongst the neighbors. Life here is relaxed, open and friendly. I need to work on my questions for the interview this morning. It is nice to watch a city wake up.
I worked on my Kreole this morning. I will get this pretty soon, I'm sure of it.
Bout my living situation, I have a cook, maid and I live like queen. It is so awesome, running water electricity and a pretty good food. It takes all day to cook here. Yesterday the ladies started cooking at 2pm for dinner which we ate at 7pm.
Well, I am excited to see what life has to bring today. I might go build a school out of bamboo or take a boat ride to another site that a school might be built on. What the life!!
I worked on my Kreole this morning. I will get this pretty soon, I'm sure of it.
Bout my living situation, I have a cook, maid and I live like queen. It is so awesome, running water electricity and a pretty good food. It takes all day to cook here. Yesterday the ladies started cooking at 2pm for dinner which we ate at 7pm.
Well, I am excited to see what life has to bring today. I might go build a school out of bamboo or take a boat ride to another site that a school might be built on. What the life!!
Friday, April 2, 2010
Day 2
Good morning, I woke up without an alarm clock after the sun first time in a long time. Yes, it i shot, but the breeze is amazing. I am liking the life here. It will be awesome. I got an opportunity to get a job here and start working to make money. I will be applying for that job later.
We are working trying to figure out what the deal will be and just getting adjusted to this place. It is really exciting for now, I am happy. I will keep you update.
I met some amazing people last night. Andrew, Ryan, Sarah, Grace, and others that are working to help people make this place better. Andrew and Ryan are building a school. Sarah works as a midwife helping and created her own organizations. Grace is starting a malnutrition program to work with Sarah.
Well that is it for now.
We are working trying to figure out what the deal will be and just getting adjusted to this place. It is really exciting for now, I am happy. I will keep you update.
I met some amazing people last night. Andrew, Ryan, Sarah, Grace, and others that are working to help people make this place better. Andrew and Ryan are building a school. Sarah works as a midwife helping and created her own organizations. Grace is starting a malnutrition program to work with Sarah.
Well that is it for now.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
First day in Haiti
We landed at 10:45pm and got our luggage. Which was interesting but it was not what I had been told it would be. People were really civil. I am very thankful for a smooth trip to Jacmel. There was no drama or delays. We did get rained on, and we were in the back of a truck but it worked out fine.
Interesting things of the day:
Port au Prince is more than a mess, is it a diaster zone still. There is garbage everywhere, there is burning garbage everywhere, there are fallen houses that crumbled into the streets. The streets are filled with people and it is very hard driving. I am assuming that it is this way in most third world countries. It made for an exciting adventure to Jacmel. While I was sitting in the back of the truck all I could think was that I wanted to do this forever. I wanted to travel the world and help people.
My mind changed when we got to where we were going. It was not the people I was just really tired and needed to go to sleep.
More Facts:
Sick looking cows; mountains are beautiful but deforested; people are nice; I really need to learn the language of the people. I feel stupid when it comes to that.
Lastly, I want a goat as a pet!!!
Interesting things of the day:
Port au Prince is more than a mess, is it a diaster zone still. There is garbage everywhere, there is burning garbage everywhere, there are fallen houses that crumbled into the streets. The streets are filled with people and it is very hard driving. I am assuming that it is this way in most third world countries. It made for an exciting adventure to Jacmel. While I was sitting in the back of the truck all I could think was that I wanted to do this forever. I wanted to travel the world and help people.
My mind changed when we got to where we were going. It was not the people I was just really tired and needed to go to sleep.
More Facts:
Sick looking cows; mountains are beautiful but deforested; people are nice; I really need to learn the language of the people. I feel stupid when it comes to that.
Lastly, I want a goat as a pet!!!
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