Photo:Our team was blessed with an opportunity to attend a Haitian wedding.
Photo: On the roof top of our beautiful home in Haiti.
1. Everything in stores is priced in Haitian dollars but their currency is in gourdes. This is because at one point they were going to switch to Haitian dollars.
2. In Haiti, French is the country’s official “language” but their native language is Creole. At home they speak Creole and at school they learn French.
3. Tap-Taps and taxi motorcycles are some of the main sources of transportation here in Gonives, Haiti. Tap-Taps are trucks in which people use the bed of truck to sit in and get around town. To get the driver to pull over people tap on the roof as a signal for the driver to come to a stop.
4. PLANTAINS: I learned how to make plantains!!!! 🙂
5. There are salt flats right past the community of Jubilee. Salt flats are natural areas where sea salt forms. I had the opportunity to observe a local collecting and cleaning the salt that she will later sell as an income for her family.
6. Boiled bananas are delicious!
7. Rice is one of the main sources of food. This past weekend we drove to St. Marks to spend the day at the ocean. As we drove, we were blessed to see beautiful green rice farms. Rice farms look like fields of grass that need very moist soil, swamp like.
8. When a man pursues a woman it is custom for him to bring his parents to her house to have them meet her parents and discuss future plans for marriage.
9. I really enjoyed learning how to organize, label, and input books in the school’s library based on the dewy decimal system.
10. Haiti used to be rich in trees, trees covered about 90% but now only about 2% is covered in trees.
11. It is common to greet eachother with a kiss on the cheek.
