Good Evening! Tamara and I arrived in Port au Prince late Saturday night
at about 8:30pm. Our extended stay in Miami was relatively painless, although we
were very tired! After completing the necessary paperwork for our missing bags
(Wolf family, did anyone have bets registered?) we set out to find Dr.
Morquette. Thank goodness I can make calls in Haiti...we stayed on the phone
with him until we found one another! We said our hellos to our
pajama'd team when we got to the house, and Dr. Morquette ate a late supper with
us (for George and Anne, I shall report that it we enjoyed rice, tomatoes,
broccoli, and a creamy squash casserole). We're sharing a room with two large
windows and a fan from heaven! Although we were told the pump wasn't working
and we'd take bird/bucket baths, the shower head drizzled us with cold water and
we cooled down from the humidity and yuck of 18 hours of traveling.
Ahhhhh! The internet connection wasn't up last night, so I do apologize
for the delay in letting you know we arrived safely! We stayed up kinda
late chatting and figuring exactly what we had packed between the two of us,
then piled in our bunk bed for a well-needed snooze! The rooster woke
us this morning (well, quite frequently, really) early for breakfast, and we
enjoyed the wonderful cultural experience of going to church with the
Morquettes and the rest of the team. After, we conjoled our driver to stop at a road-side gallery of paintings, and engaged in another cultural practice...bargaining! Several
masterpieces are now proudly owned by team members (I'll try to send pictures
later...I have a great one of Tamara looking at the artwork). Uh
oh....we're being summoned to a team meeting! More soon... Bon
Nouit! In Peace and Love, Gaelynn
at about 8:30pm. Our extended stay in Miami was relatively painless, although we
were very tired! After completing the necessary paperwork for our missing bags
(Wolf family, did anyone have bets registered?) we set out to find Dr.
Morquette. Thank goodness I can make calls in Haiti...we stayed on the phone
with him until we found one another! We said our hellos to our
pajama'd team when we got to the house, and Dr. Morquette ate a late supper with
us (for George and Anne, I shall report that it we enjoyed rice, tomatoes,
broccoli, and a creamy squash casserole). We're sharing a room with two large
windows and a fan from heaven! Although we were told the pump wasn't working
and we'd take bird/bucket baths, the shower head drizzled us with cold water and
we cooled down from the humidity and yuck of 18 hours of traveling.
Ahhhhh! The internet connection wasn't up last night, so I do apologize
for the delay in letting you know we arrived safely! We stayed up kinda
late chatting and figuring exactly what we had packed between the two of us,
then piled in our bunk bed for a well-needed snooze! The rooster woke
us this morning (well, quite frequently, really) early for breakfast, and we
enjoyed the wonderful cultural experience of going to church with the
Morquettes and the rest of the team. After, we conjoled our driver to stop at a road-side gallery of paintings, and engaged in another cultural practice...bargaining! Several
masterpieces are now proudly owned by team members (I'll try to send pictures
later...I have a great one of Tamara looking at the artwork). Uh
oh....we're being summoned to a team meeting! More soon... Bon
Nouit! In Peace and Love, Gaelynn
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