It works a little differently in Haiti. There are no seat belt laws-or even seat laws really. Since you really need a truck to get around with more than two people, and for further than a few miles, that is what is used. Some are regular trucks, others are army trucks. They have to be able to navigate narrow streets, roll over large rocks, go through rivers and huge puddles, and carry lots of people, or shipments. Then they just nail wood into the bed on the truck for seats. So, this is how we get around Haiti. A picture is just an easier way to explain…..

The secret to not flying off the sides is to throw luggage on each others feet, and hold on tight!

I love snacks. I am a ‘graze all day’ kind of gal. I like to eat small meals all day long. So, when we packed our bags to come here, I had to use all of my 100lbs for many things, and that didn’t include snacks. Well, apparently, they are harder to come by here than I thought. So, I just shrugged it off, knowing I couldn’t do much about it. In the meantime, I made friends with the cooks. There are about five full time Haitian women in the kitchen. They don’t speak very much English, so we are working on trying to communicate. But, there is a women cooking back there who is white. She is from KT, and she has been here for a month. She is so sweet! We have become friends, and during the coarse of chatting, she found out my plight. Being a mom, she naturally looks out for all of us living here anyway. So, sure enough, the next day, she had a stack of snacks she rummaged up!! I have never been so excited for granola bars, top ramon, and cashews!!

Notice the one flip flop….

This is a program that nwhcm does every weekday at 4pm.  It is just as it sounds. They do a feeding for the gran moun (elderly people) in the afternoons. Everyday at 4pm. There are usually 40 or so there. Then, they take some meals in canisters and deliver them to some elderly who cannot make the trek to get a hot meal.  There are only about five they deliver to from this program, but so many more could use it. It would be a hard job deciding who would get a meal delivered and would not. So, I just tag along when I can to meet people, learn the streets and get outside of the compound everyday.