Reading Reef Hotel Kingston

Message de Richard:

Pour vous donner un aperçu de la situation en Haïti et du bien-fondé du projet Better Work Haïti voici un petit vidéo tourné lors de 1er forum des acheteurs internationaux et des partenaires haïtiens tenu le 30 sept, 1er et 2 oct dernier organisé par nul autre que moi-m ...

Here it is! Ici c'est!

Bonjou!

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.

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.

Port-au-Prince (PAP) est encadré par 2 ...

... wrote down my name and organization when after we spoke briefly. During the beginning of the inauguration she mentioned me among these other important people just because I was the only white person there. Sure I went to some of the meetings to plan for the budget of the construction, but I really didn't do much of anything. I just found it strange that I would even be mentioned.
KEEPING IN TOUCH: is difficult from a foreign country. It's ...

It’s dark. The shapes of my apartment are eclipsed by the bright white light of my computer screen as I type this. It’s 9:30 p.m., and already, they have cut the generator off. For the first couple of weeks, a few lights, the tv, and the fan in my bedroom would still work thanks to a magical “inverter” hidden away somewhere. Alas, the battery has run out of juice, or so I assume. So, for ...

Salut groupe!

Quelques images de promenades en montagne, à 30 minutes de la maison. Avant de venir ici, dans les images que je me projettais de Haiti, non, je ne voyais pas de montagnes. Mais c'est très beau, farci de sentiers, on peut marcher partout, c'est fabuleux! Et en marchant, on traverse champs d'oignons, de mais ...

... point of the resort so we had an amazing view of the water and the coast in each direction.  Just below our balcony was the Arizona, the southwest-themed restaurant at the resort.   The next seven days were filled with wonderful food, beautiful sunsets, tons of sunscreen, warm clear water and some of the best bartenders ever!!  The breakfast spread was just amazing with never ending trays of the freshest and sweetest fruit I'd ever tasted.  Each meal we had was different ...

... Kingston, Jamaica Departure time: 8:20am Left with a full tank of gas and a clean car (owned) Estimated drive time: 3.0 hours Decided to leave early morning, so that I could reach at a decent time- but not so early that I would catch traffic. TIP: Let the hotel know you may be an early check-in - my place was accommodating. Took my time and drove slowly going through ...

... price of admission. Though the movie had been showing at the theatre for several weeks, the auditorium was still packed with people. Following climactic scenes, the audience would applaud, and midway through the film, an intermission allowed a pause for soda, banana chip or popcorn refills. My cohorts and I had a good time, and my sister later added (over Google Talk) that the experience would have made a great MasterCard commercial: Ticket to See 'The Dark ...

Just to give an update... http://go-jamaica.com/weather/index-gus tav.php The Jamaican government has issued a hurricane warning. Gustav took a path closer to Jamaica and is expected to grow to hurricane (category 1) status by later today. We've been told not to go to school and to stay indoors. As of now, we're just helping to gather supplies and water. We are fine, calm, ready (as much as we can be). I'll be in touch as able. Again, please send good thoughts to ...

... the ship that had our berth relented and we picked up anchor at 09:45, arriving at the container port two hours later. Main features of the steam in were the aircraft appearing to land in the bay (the airport being on a spit of land) and the pelicans that landed just about everywhere. - - - - - - - (Later): Jamaica turns out to be less relaxed and much more uptight in a bureaucratic way than I'd imagined. Having berthed, we had a ...