Le Marcelin Inn Port-au-Prince

Here it is! Ici c'est!<br><br>Bonjou!<br> <br> Ki jan ou ye? Je vous le jure, apprendre le créole c'est comme manger un Duncan Hines bien frais, encore un peu chaud... Exea les tons vietnamiens, ici on l'apprend une fois, et ça marche la fois d"après. Mais là n'est pas l'objet du blog. <br> <br> Certains de vous l'avez demandée, d'autres pas, mais comme je suis mémère, je vous présente aujourd'hui notre lieu de vie: ze house we live in.<br> <br> Port-au-Prince (PAP) est encadré par 2 ...

... it cool and fresh. And the air is half the humidity of Saigon, making the heat very easy to get along with. As our home will have two guest bedrooms, you are all welcome here!<br><br>Myself will start to work for Médecins du Monde Canada at the end of the month, half time, for 3 months at least. Back to ONG stuff! I&#8217;ll be a kind of consultant on all of their services they offer in the notorious slum Cité Soleil (see the first blog for pics) (also, see www ...

... médicaments, des lits d&#8217;hospitalisés, dont cette femme, qui est arrivée ce matin en choc hémorragique : complication d&#8217;un avortement artisanal qu&#8217;elle a eu à la maison, car c&#8217;est le seul moyen d&#8217;en avoir un. La loi les interdit, alors les médecins refusent d&#8217;en faire. Ils ne font que réparer les pots cassés. La contraception est permise, mais qu&#8217;est-ce qu&#8217;un macho veut faire d&#8217;une capote? Qu&#8217;est-ce qu&#8217;une ...

... It has been delayed to 7:05. They are holding it! The pilot nicely asks people to remain seated so anyone flying to Grand Rapids or St. Louis can depart quickly. Strangely everyone gets up anyway, are they all flying to the same place? We sprint through the airport in record time and run into our seats. Thank the Lord, we have made it. As I sit there sweaty, dirty, probably stinky as well, I am so happy to be on the final ...

... Les Anglais has a system that was apparently built by USAID in the late 70's/80's (?) and is in despair due to age, wear and tear, and hurricane damage. The water is not currently being treated. Our project model strives to be sustainable by building the capacity of the local community to maintain what has been implemented. We (the health assessment team) will be conducting household health surveys and targeted community focus ...

Blue helmets provided the backdrop for the light tank, an Argentine soldier manned the M-16, finger on the trigger. Tank, food truck, food truck, food truck, Tank. One million dollars worth of UN food aid rolled through the systemically poor town of Cabaret. We were only 20 miles north of Port-au-Prince and still somehow there is a lack of food in a church turned relief shelter. Marc and I stood amongst the pews crowded by a group of 20 children and a ...

... of the ladder. Our paint is limited to two colors-a yellow and light green. The plumbing crew gets the water tower built. The electric crew gets the generator running. We bust it all day and get a lot accomplished. Back in our spacious room, we take bucket baths. We have our own bathroom! Of course the tolit needs to be flushed by hand but it is not so bad. There is a shower but the water isn't running ...

... aquí se escucha, se bebe, se come y se vive el "Kompa", que es un hermoso ritmo tropical, donde predominan los teclados y las guitarras eléctricas al más puro estilo caribeño - y omito el detalle del baile, que son de las cosas que no se pueden escribir: mejor párate y baila. 5. La comida. El primero de "los reveillones" fue el de los Amis de la Chanson, que estuvo bien organizado y rete bueno, en un "casino" (salón de baile, fiestas y eventos ...

... resultados fueron disputados (mexicanos: ¿les suena familiar?). Lamentablemente el conflicto llegó a la violencia, y murieron dos personas. Invertí buen tiempo de esta semana para preparar la homilía delsegundo domingo de adviento - o como decimos en creol, DEZYEM DIMANCH LAVAN (parece una transliteración castellana de algo pronunciado en francés). Es complejo en muchos sentidos. En primer lugar, porque predicar es complejo de suyo. Empatado en primer ...

... she said," I whispered back. Mary's pale blue eyes widened, and her crazy scarlet hair bounced. "I'm kind of nervous. I've never been around people with leprosy or AIDS before, and I can't ask them anything. Creole's way harder than French." She hurried beside me, her shoulder locked to mine, her pale face inches away. I felt a little stifled in the heat, a little panicked. "Don't worry about it," I told her, examining my fingers, a strange fleshy blue inside my single layer ...