Hotel Villa Therese Port-au-Prince

... n'a pas encore la voiture de fonction fournie par son travail, et bien voilà, les déplacements sont au minimum! <br><br>Donc hôtel très bien, fleuri et vert, à flanc de montagnes, toujours arrosé d'une brise, sinon d&#8217;un vent. Le facteur humidex ici est très bas, donc beaucoup moins chaud que Saigon. Dans les 28-32 tous les jours. Des bassins d&#8217;eau et fontaines partout, et des vieux meubles art déco en bois ...

... rag-tag clothes, disturbingly large duffles, and loud banter we are definitely the "bad news bears" of mission groups. If being in Haiti is wrong I don't want to be right! Which of course makes it so much more fun! We get through customs smoothly and head out to the parking lot to wait for our rental trucks. The heat is stifling and the smell in the air is not to be described. As I scan the surrounding areas I see pollution ...

We awake at O'dark thirty in the morning. I look over to the bunkhouse and I see that someone is up since the oil lamps are on upstairs. I brush my teeth and wash my face and finally get the girls up. I want them to sleep as long as they can. We finally head over to the bunkhouse just before the land rovers pull in. I grab one last banana for breakfast. The big bags have gone ahead the day before, so we have just our carry-ons. The one ...

Haitian Life by the Numbers Voitures de l'ONU que j'ai vues en un jour: 11 Combien d'heures d'électricité hier: 11 (?) A quelle heure on a coupé le courant: avant 6h00 Il faut rechauffer combien de pôts de l'eau chaque matin?: 3 (on n'a pas d'eau ...

Upon arrival and departure, we drove through crowded parts of the city, stopping occassionally to jump out quickly for a photograph. Most of the photos you'll see from Port-au-Prince are taken from inside our vehicle. In order to get our attention for dollars, often times the local people, especially children, attempted to hang on to our doors ...

... to our room. I lay down on the bed and tell Kim to tell me when everyone is done with lunch. Little do I realize that Kim, Ashley, and Megan have stretched out on their beds too. I wake up startled, two hours later, and realize we've all been napping. My first thought is "I hope Dave didn't see us". I tip-toe out, grab a paintbrush and start slapping paint up in the one unpainted bathroom. Hopefully they'll think I ...

The trip to Haiti was very smooth. We were delayed in Miami due to a thunderstorm. This worked to our advantage as we were able to have a nice lunch. There have been many laughs and we already have several catch phrases. Our navigation of the airport was fairly smooth. I was pulled out of line because I did not fill out my form in blue ink. I think this made many people in our ...

... escribir esa carta. LLevo los últimos siete años de mi vida en el extranjero, soñando y viviendo una iglesia que es posible, aunque a veces parezca no estar muy de moda, o aunque muchos piensen que necesita como otra revolución interior. Pero más que mis sueños, he estado colaborando en comunidad por el Reinado de Dios, ese proyecto grandioso que es voluntad de Dios. Cada vez soy más consciente que, como religioso, la direccionalidad y la motivación de ...

... for health authorities. In proportional terms, the vast majority of known HIV cases in the Caribbean have been registered in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Unfortunately, our lab facilities are not equipped to deal with this situation. At least, not yet! Another big concern is infant malnutrition. I heard a story about a woman who was in such dire straits that she asked someone to take her youngest child. Both all of her children and herself were ...

... known since the beginning of time. Their eyes, their dark eyes never left us, the entire time we circled around the room, three tiny women against the roaring immensity of silent suffering. Our ignorance poked through us like shattered bones, white and awkward and visible. I bent down towards a young girl, whose face never shifted as I asked her her name. "Comment-appelez vous?" No response. Mary's girl said something, and Mary turned to me. "She likes your earrings," she ...