Villa St-louis Port-au-Prince

... des nombreux bars de la ville. Elle semblait avoir un deuxième souffle !

· Il paraît qu'ici ça fait pas mal Afrique noire. Les gens, le chaos, la désorganisation, le rythme lent, les rendez-vous qu'on ne tient pas, les bus trop pleins, les villes non finies, mais pleines d'espoir...

· On entend des locaux bien nantis combien c'était beau ici, y'a pas si longtemps, dans le temps des Duvalier. « Au moins ...

Constat d'innocence (short English paragraph at the end)

On ne saitque ce que l'on sait. Et si on sait ce que l’on ne sait pas, c’est un brin desagesse. Mais comment le savoir, ce qu’on ne connaît pas???

On sait parexposition, apprentissage, intellect, par expérience personnelle. Puis supposéqu’avec nos lobes frontaux, on peut faire mieux : on peut transposer desconnaissances et expériences personnelles ...

... so they can see themselves (no mirrors).

We finally arrive at the clinic and it is raining! We greet Dr. Leo who has accomplished a great deal. The clinic has a second floor. He has a full garden now and one of his passions is helping the people grow healthy food. This means we must leave the trucks at the top of the hill and walk the mile down to the rectory. It is like a muddy slip-and-slide. Poor John falls and breaks his ...

... was ever bombed, is unknown to 99% of Americans. Similarly, we learn about the “Spanish-American War” in U.S. history. Was that fought in Spain or the U.S.? I forget. Ada Ferrer points out that this thirty year anti-racist and anti-imperialist struggle in Cuba was insultingly turned into a 113 day “skirmish” when the U.S. stormed in, pretending they had really won the war. Cubans were not represented in peace ...

The brother is waiting for the computer, so this entry will be in English: 22 December 2008 At the crack of dawn, we received our wake up call from the friendly people at SpringHill Suites/FLL. By 5 am, we were on our way to the airport. Fort Lauderdale is one of those airports that should be small but is quite massive. Are all airports in Florida gigantic? Our flight was packed ...

... they not hold our plane they are rude and obnoxious. American Airlines-you rot! The next flight is not till 7:20 AM. We proceed to Hertz to rent a car. This takes forever as it is complicated with eleven people and stuff, and one-way rental, etc.. We lay on the ground outside Hertz. I know it's the ground but it is still cleaner than what I am. Finally the guys work their magic and into a big ...

... are no cabinets for storage, no relevant books and no materials. The walls are pretty much transparent. School is not free in Haiti so basically wherever you are you have to pay tuition. A curriculum is being worked on so there is continuity for the students. Another component for the people of St. Pierre will hopefully be skills training. My Haiti dream comes true. I get to ride a donkey. JR finds a man named Claude who ...

... Boniface's driver) has run out of gas. He has to walk to the gas station. We have a soda on the side of the road. Coca Loca for me, it's delicious. Right after I chug it Tim asks me if I remembered to wipe the top of the bottle (thanks for mentioning that now). We really get an eye level view of the poverty and despair. We get on the road again to stop at another gas station to fill up one of the trucks. Driving throught PAP is ...

... entiende), video y todos los ojos sobre aquella morenaza y su diácono acompañante. Saldo: todo bien, aunque me quedé con ganas de más baile. Lamentablemente me perdí el reveillon de Service et Fraternité, el último de nuestra maratón. Usted preguntará por qué, siendo de tan cándida timidez como lo soy, me perdí el último reveillon. Pues porque fui a visitar las otras misiones oblatas en el Departamento del Noreste, a saber, a Ouanaminthe Capotille, Mont ...

... me ayudó a traducirla al creol. ¿Predicar de memoria, sin leer, solo con alguna "referenskard"? A pesar de ser lo más adecuado desde el punto de vista oratorio, retórico, homilético, litúrgico y comunicoloquequieras, por ahora ni pensarlo. TRAS LA PREDICACIóN... parece que la homilía salió bien: la gente quedó contenta y agradecida. Parece que mi pronunciación del creol no es tan mala. Estoy muy entusiasmado, con la idea de continuar predicando cada ...