Haiti Hecticness

Hello all! We have had a great last couple of days, we see something bizarre everyday. We have been having the weirdest flash storms lately. It will be cloudy and hot and then all of the sudden it will be raining cats and dogs. The odd feeling is it is still 90 degrees in the rain. It is hurricane season so it is to be expected to have weird weather. Gabe, Kevin, Willie and I are adjusting well to mostly everything, there is a lot to adjust too. The heat and the humidity is a huge thing to adjust too, we are just getting use to being wet all the time, in the morning, in the rain, when I sleep and definitely when we work… which is all the time.. The other thing that we are doing is we are learning creol…. I thought English was more prominent but creol is the language to know. Not knowing creol is proving to be super annoying because we don’t always have one of our translators with us. For example the driving situation is crazy, take everything that you have seen in movies about third world country driving and triple it… there is no laws at all, no dividing line….  We were driving in the back of our “tap tap” (which is a small truck with a camper and seating in the back to fit a lot of people)  we were driving and we turned left and a guy behind us went to pass us but he tried to pass us on the left, but we turned left… see the problem? So he ran into the back of us.. just a scratch but he broke his light on his truck… so we pull over and we stay in the back. Pastor John gets out and this guy that crashed into us thinks he was right and we were wrong… plus we are white so he thinks we will just pay him off…. John wont have that, so all of the sudden John is surrounded by a bunch of locals who want to see whats happening.. none of us speak creol.. so it was a very tense situation.. but it all got worked out, after an hour and a half waiting we had a translator come and we figured it out.. but it was weird!!  Being engulfed into a completely different culture is so odd but at the same time it is just fantastic.   Crescent City Foursquare Come to Haiti!!! You will have the time of your lives, you have no idea!!!!

Patrick, Kevin, Willie and Gabe

Oh Yah a big shout out to Mr.Carties Class!!