Hurricane #2, and we are okay.
Imagine a snow--when it starts to snow and everyone calls out of work and school gets cancelled and everyone watches the weather all day to find out that...yes indeed, it is snowing. Well, here in Haiti there is no snow. When it rains everyone stays home, calls out of work, the stores don't open and everyone listens to the radio to find out that...yes indeed, it is raining. To call it a "hurricane" is probably correct, but we experienced only rain--three days of steady rain. Not heavy hurricane rain, just steady rain for about 3 days. When the rain finally stopped and people emerged again, we asked what they had done for the past three days, and the common response was "We stayed in bed all day." We learned from our Haitian friends to take it easy, so we got out of bed late and busied ourselves with Scrabble (in English and Creole), a movie, and some reading.
In other news, this morning we arrived in Port-au-Prince for the last leg of our orientation. We'll be here for a little more than a week, taking Creole lessons, setting up a bank account, and learning things like How to Drive a Motorcycle in Swiftly Moving Traffic. Then we're on to Desarmes on September 6!
Until the next hurricane.....
In which Bryan and Sharon, two mouns from Philadelphia,
learn Creole
propagate trees
and live in beautiful rural Haiti.
4 comments:
Rain always makes me happy because it is such a good excuse for not working and staying home. I always regretted taking an inside job, though I must admit I still take off a day or to a year on account of rain, I just don’t tell anyone that that was the reason I stayed home.
Hi Bryan and Sharon
I wanted to make sure you survived Gustav. Sounds like it wasn't too bad and who doesn't love 3 days to do whatever.....Glad you are OK.
Glad to hear you're okay.
News flash - sometimes when the comment says it is from "Edith" - it is actually from Garth!
But - unlike the 8/31 post - this one is from Edith. Anyway, glad you guys have faired well in the hurricane season thus far. Our Bridge of Hope in Louisiana, just across the lake from New Orleans, has had their 3 parish service area hit by the Gustav. Now here in the Philly area we are expecting lots of rain this weekend - which is sad for the folks in Manayunk who have been all excited about the soapbox races this weekend down the hill. Take care!
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