Mont Joli Cap-Haitien

... with a phone call. "Richard, what's up, buddy?" I had called my college chum, Rich, to check in on news from Asheville, where he is a resident, about to begin his second year as a goodly doctor. "Daniel, good chum, in fact Haiti is up. I am headed there in a few weeks, and boy oh boy am I excited." He seemed as much, anyway. "Richard, kind friend, oh buddy of mine, I too would like to visit Haiti. Pray tell, what are you doing there?" "Volunteering at a hospital ...

... set in. I went up to give Sasha the bad news. We concocted a likely story and I called Lynx as she left to pick up Rosemond from school. After digging up all of my confirmation emails for my international and domestic U.S. flights I made the call.



"Hi, I was supposed to fly from Cap to Fort Lauderdale today, but I was travelling in the countryside and our car broke down. Needless to say, I couldn't make it to the airport."
Cap Haitien, Haiti mtrmsd

... Mario Joseph (who works with Brian Concannon). This morning I woke up early and sat down with Privert for a short interview before he had to fly out. He's clearly intelligent and has a unique perspective on the situation in Haiti. The rest of today has been pretty low key. Erika is worse off today and back in bed. She's flying out tomorrow and Kevin and Sarah head to Borgne. It'll be Sasha, myself, and newly arrived Peter with AIDG. Only a few more days and I'll be back in school.

... any old (1930's) Haitian history or literature. He said he could be killed for selling some of the books by authors I asked about. I'm not sure why he said that. Anyway, I'm looking into a scanning project further and found the Digital Library of the Caribbean (www.dloc.com) which is exactly the sort of idea I had. I've been looking through their training manuals and other documents. I'm sure this project is underfunded ...

... Mont Joli for Sasha's birthday. The rest of the night included a lot of discussion serious and not so. This morning we went to Shada around 11AM. The same group meeting with Obas had an impromptu meeting with a government official at Madame Bwa's house just before we headed to Doug's Village. When we arrived at Doug's village the foundation had been laid for the dry toilet and we began ...

... on steep hills and sharp turns as the horse slipped on the rocks. We made it back to the SOIL toilet by Sans Souci and the inevitable happened. The guys tried to get me to pay them more and I brought the agreement. Then he told me I only paid him 50 gourdes. I called him a liar and noticed a kid with a machete nearby. I was weak and tired from not eating and alone at the bottom. Sweet. Luckily within ten minutes Trisha came down on a horse, but she passed me and ...

... massacre. The women next door could only hear all of the shouting. The goat was a running topic throughout the day. As Erika and I walked upstairs we ran into Sasha, Rosemond, Wisnel, and Tony. Sasha said the three others were intent on killing the goat tonight and she needed two other people. I dropped in the guy's room to inform everyone and Woody came along for the ride. On the road the UN Police stopped us and questioned Sasha. No one drives ...

... and I barely made our (late) connection to Miami. We were relieved to find our luggage in Miami as well because getting our bags to Lynx Air would be difficult and sketchy. Around 12:30 AM we settled into our part of the lobby floor of the Miami International Airport. I got one wonderful hour of sleep, but am surprisingly still fine as of this posting. We flew in a 17 seat plane to Cap Haitien with Emma, Greg, Rachel, and Woody, all four students ...

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... this idea and does not promise toilets for one family's use. After the Citadelle we visited a demonstration site (see www.oursoil.org for pictures). To clean up the water sources and land in a cost effective manner (on a shoe-string budget) SOIL needs to make public toilets and we will be doing the same in Duchity. The night ended with the emptying of a bottle of rum into a few glasses and one Prestige for me.