Well after 4 weeks with no internet, I am back. I understand it’s been a long time since you all heard from me, but I am going to go ahead and sum up most of the events in Haiti in a top 11 reasons why I loved Haiti.
1. 1. A butterfly bit me and that was the cause of the rash on my face, back, chest and arms. Or at least that is what was translated. (bedbugs)
2. 2. Spaghetti noodles with a mild hot sauce and shiriveled hot dogs are considered normal breakfast foods, and is served with a side of boiled eggs, onions, green peppers, and ketchup. What is more funny is that we began to pray for spaghetti days.
3. 3. Hunting became a team past time. Many cockroaches felt the wrath of my flip flop. Many mice, spiders and scorpions fell victim to Dave the Vermon Hunter.
4. 4. Settlers, settlers and more settlers. Yes I tried playing it, I liked it, I am addicted and I will be needing a support group.
5. 5. The amazingly loud vehicles that woke you up at all hours of the night, with yelling Haitian men, that it sound like they are in your room.
6. 6. Squatty potties, with a curtain that can and will fly up if not properly supported with many of rocks
7. 7. Your belly is always full as dust is the fifth food group in Gonaives, just stand outside and try to have a conversation.
8. 8., Waking up on the roof and seeing a man wander on the property with a machette and go up to a door, you pray and he can’t seem to work a door knob so he just leaves. (thank you God for that)
9. 9. Waking up on a roof period. Stars in Haiti were so beautiful
10. 10. Bonfires thanks to dear Benny V. (I’m so Canadian)
11. 11. Having a dance worship party with all my teens and the little girls at the orphanage, hearing them shout out their prayers corporately and tucking them in. J’aime mes amies.
