It would be impossible for me to fully describe everything that I have seen and experienced in the past few days. Also, this is our first time using the internet cafe and I'm not super sure how paying for time and stuff works so I will keep it short and sweet. Haiti is very hot and humid just like Florida so I'm all about it. Some of my teammates from more northern places are struggling a little but we're all doing pretty good. I am staying with two other girls from my team. Our house "mom's" name is Mona although she's only 24 so I guess she is more like a sister. The place where we are staying a like a big house with a couple other families with an outside living room. We have to shower and use the bathroom outside but there is running water most of the time so I'm not complaining. Although it was a surprise the first time I went to go use the restroom and there where bunnies chilling in there.
Every where we go we hear "Blanc! Blanc!" which basically means "Hey, check out the white people!" We have a translator named Wilson who goes everywhere with us because we would be super confused and lost and it is just a safety thing. He is the only translator with only girls and no boys so we do feel kind of bad for him but we know he loves us! But it has definitely been a fun change in culture. Everyone we live with shares everything and I'm all about that because sharing is caring!
Here's a couple random things I have gotten to experience in the past few days: I got to ride a motorcycle for the first time. Those are kind of like the taxi service here. I got to have coconut fresh from the tree. We got to go to the ocean. There is no sand, just rocks but the view of the landscape from the beach is amazing! I did shower outside where you can see about from my shoulders up but that's how everyone does it at the house where we are staying so it seems totally normal to them. I have eaten my weight in homemade potato chips! I am learning some words in Creole but it's really hard because the sounds are so different from English. Names are the hardest to understand and remember but of course everyone is super sweet if we have trouble.
Basically, I love it here! It's so fun and different. One of the things that I am adjusting to is the idea of not caring what time it is. If we ask Wilson what the time is, he just looks at us and goes "WHATT?! We don't care about the time. We run on Haitian time!" So I have no idea what time it is ever. But hey, I'm a native Haitian now so who cares?!
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