Well, I guess I should have written this last week, but what can I say... I didn't. So, here is last weeks blog, written this week. The theme is, I suppose, Port-au-Prince, which, of course, I have not seen much of. Regardless though, I will give it my best effort. First, i'm not sure where I left off on the last one. I think I was still living in Villa Manrese, which was the religious house with the awsome view. I moved out of there two Fridays ago. The director of Fonkoze, Anne Hastings, was going to Paris for the week, [View Full Entry]

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Well, I'm sitting around at work waiting for the ride home, so I figure it's time for update no. 2... First, something about the temperature here. Last weekend, it got up to about 30 degrees, which is warm, but actually colder than it was in Toronto! It's currently 30 degrees, so the temperature hasn't been too bad at all. Considering my housing doesn't have aircon or a fan, i'm happy about that. It's not nearly as bad as Guyana was in the summer... it's even better than London is, since at least i'm up in the mountains a bit. So, since [View Full Entry]

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Well, I decided to write a travel blog because that's what I said I would do... so here is my first one. As you know, I arrived in Haiti last Monday. My flight landed at around 4 pm Port-au-Prince (PAP) time, which is an hour earlier than Toronto time. Altogether, I was travelling for about 14 hours, which isn't as much fun as it sounds (even though I got free drinks in the Miami lounge!). The PAP airport has seen better days. They are upgrading it, sort-of, but is a typical third world airport... no boarding ramp, run down entrance, crumbling [View Full Entry]

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April 11th, Labadee, 6:02am I decided not to go to the party last night; I just had this feeling that I should call it a night and go to bed. I just figured with three days I should try and stay out of trouble and get some rest. The only problem is that I am now wide awake at 6:02am with nothing to do; well I guess I could finish packing. The weather looks good for today in Labadee which is good because we have had two not so good weather weeks. We are down two guys today at the wave [View Full Entry]

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April 4th, Labadee, 6:36pm Everything seemed normal when I got to the office this morning, but when Sorin called us and said we were going to be an hour late; we all knew we had a tough day in front of us. An hour late means high winds, which means the flight line and parasailing will probably be cancelled, which means a lot of upset guests. The tendering procedure got a little screwed up as always when we are late, but in the end we got everything worked out. When we got to the island we said hi to Carl and [View Full Entry]

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March 28th, Labadee, 7:51pm How am I going to make it through the summer without Labadee Friday? Today defined what a Friday should be. I was up early and in the office by 7:30am, and was encouraged when I saw land at 8am, meaning we were on time. The girls however were not on time, and did not show up until 8:30am, 15 minutes late. We got all of the tours on the first tender with little problem and off to beach we went, smiles on everybody’s face. I walked over to my office on the beach and as I walked [View Full Entry]

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March 21st, Labadee, 4:19pm So I guess some of you are wondering if we were able to make it into Labadee today……YES!! We were however an hour late and the weather was terrible, as far as the wind goes, so that meant no snorkeling because there was no visibility in the water. We also had to cancel the Malfini beach excursion because of the rough seas. We all met in the office at 8am because we knew there was going to be chaos everywhere, and there was. We opened the desk for an hour to answer questions and give refunds and [View Full Entry]

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March 14th, Labadee, 3:57pm I was up early today for some reason, probably because I was so excited to get to the beach! I headed to the office to get a couple of things done and Brad was online and wanted to chat for a few minutes about the future and who is going where. We chatted for a few minutes and let me in on some inside information as far as who is going to which ship, I can’t tell you because it is not final but it sounds very interesting! I headed to the rendezvous to meet the morning [View Full Entry]

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March 13th, Casa De Campo, 6:31pm My day started with a call to the safety officer at 8:00am (yes I woke him up) to see if Ed could skip out of boat drill. It was a very short conversation but in the end Ed could come with me! The group was ready to go by 8:55am and we were early for once so off we went. The bus was right outside, we got everybody loaded, collected tickets, made sure the bus driver knew where he was going and we were off like a shot! It was a good size group today, [View Full Entry]

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Hi so i guess ill write about this past weekend. which was one of my favorite experiences here in Haiti. A couple of us whent with "the brothers orphanage" on a rice feed about an hour out of port-au-prince. Peeople were told to sit in a line as we did prayer and leanrt a bible verse and sang a song after that We handed each person a bag of rice. it was an experience i'll never forget. each person ranged from enfants to grandmothers. After that we traveled back into port-au-prince and delivered more food supplies to other orphanages. ... i [View Full Entry]

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