May 2010
20 posts
WatchThis was the last few minutes of an hour plus long dance party. We’re tired, but still have it in us.
Day 47
I left Haiti today. It’s weird to realize how full my heart is for total strangers. And how total strangers have become close friends.
What’s next? After some time at home running errands and getting a visa, I’m leaving for Cameroon later this month. Finally doing one of those Habitat for Humanity trips. It’ll be nice to be part of a team.
And after that? I got a new job in New York. Back in...
Day 45
There was a 4.3 earthquake today. People in Leogane felt it. So did people in PAP. The patients in the Bel Air clinic apparently started running for the doors. I somehow managed to not feel it at all. Everyone is okay.
The Bel Air support team, most of which have nowhere to sleep, scraped their money together to buy me this beautiful carving of Haiti as a farewell gift. They also wrote a long...
Day 45
I had the most amazing church service in the middle of a thunderstorm. The power was out, the rain was pounding on the tin roof but people were still singing and dancing.
The Haitian congregation prayed for me yesterday. For ME. I felt honored and guilty at the same time.
Have listened to a lot of the XX while I’ve been here. Side note, totally recommend their album. Now when I listen to it I...
Day 44
Many, many buildings collapsed in Haiti but for some reason 8 million barbershops and lotto booths remain.
Finally saw the new set up in Bel Air yesterday. They’ve spread the clinic way out across the church. It’s working. Well done guys.
After it rains here, driving on normal dirt roads instantly turns into off-roading on mountainous terrain.
I talked in my sleep last night. In Kreyol.
Day 43
Went to Buteau on Friday. It’s a rural community that actually feels like a community. A lot of large families and a pastor who couldn’t have been happier to have us. He thanked us with a cooler full of iced drinks. In 100 degree heat that was an unbelievable gift.
Ate another coconut. Those suckers hold a lot of juice. I’ve yet to master a technique that doesn’t involve spilling all...
Day 42
Went back up to Fondwa on Thursday and worked with the doctors. It was my first time working a full day at a clinic and I can tell why they’re exhausted. Fondwa was intense! A lot of really sick people and it felt so important that we were there.
They let me do triage (sans translator I might add, woop!) So basically I took blood pressures for adults, temperatures for kids and gave anti-worm...