Rossignol - to get Rossignol, we traveled further on, the road changing from paved to dirt and then to narrower and narrower dirt road. Remember, we’re in a big truck, so meeting any other vehicle or even donkeys carrying bags of grain was an exciting experience. The countryside changed - more poverty stricken area. I see and I think “oh my God - how sad this is” but, then I try to remember that this was probably life before the quake as well. I see rice paddies and women planting rice. Small gardens planted in what looks like the poorest soil. Little fields of corn. Again, there are a some scrawny cattle, a pig, a goat here and there. I see no tents - only makeshift small shelters, mostly of wood or 'mud' mixed with what
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