Let there be light!

Still our first night in Petit Goave and still no electricity and still raining. But Dave brought us an oil lamp. I never thought I'd use one of those inside, but I guess it's normal here so, hey, why not?! We've got to get ready for school tomorrow somehow!

from 6/29/08

I'm sitting at the table near the kitchen window writing this while rain is POURING down outside. It's only 6pm but its so stormy that there's just enough light to see (the electricity is out) and it's great. Right now we have to figure out how to find something to eat in the dark...maybe we'll move at each lightening flash. Thank God we have a good house though, because there are palm branches falling down everywhere and a mini-river that's started up right in the middle of the property, in between the top of the compound and the sea. And it's the rain ripping thigns up, there's no wind at all! I've never in my life been in rain that's this strong. It's like instead of just falling down, it's being thrown down to the earth...pretty powerful and awesome to see.

aaand, we're back

It's September and I'm back into the swing of things with school and work and the new house. So I've finally found time to start up the process of transferring my Haiti stories onto the blog, so enjoy!