After a little bit of an adventure, I made it to Haiti! Since my flight out of DC was delayed, I missed my connection to Haiti so I didn't get to travel with the rest of my group. Landing in Haiti alone was a bit scary and super chaotic (worse than India) but I found my luggage pretty quickly and kept saying no to all the people trying to help me with my luggage. I found my group and we headed to Matthew 25, the guesthouse I'm staying at tonight. Haiti is really hilly and looks kind of like India in terms of the buildings and how people sell things on the side of the road, but the roads are much worse and there is still a lot of rubble from the earthquake. The guesthouse I'm at is pretty cool, and dinner was all vegetarian. I had a cornmeal/bean combo (kind of like a moist upit) and some veggie curry sauce with it. We also had cooked vegetables and beetroot, so everything was yummy and filling.
The mosquitoes are already biting! The bathroom status, which was my biggest question before coming here, is not bad. There's toilet paper but they tell us not to flush unless it's really bad (ew). There is a normal shower, with just cold water, and we have to work to conserve that too because it hasn't rained here in a while.
Headed out to a beach house for orientation tomorrow! I will be there until Saturday, when we will head to our guesthouse in Leogane!
The mosquitoes are already biting! The bathroom status, which was my biggest question before coming here, is not bad. There's toilet paper but they tell us not to flush unless it's really bad (ew). There is a normal shower, with just cold water, and we have to work to conserve that too because it hasn't rained here in a while.
Headed out to a beach house for orientation tomorrow! I will be there until Saturday, when we will head to our guesthouse in Leogane!
