My life in Haiti - Aug '04 to Feb '06

Wednesday, January 26, 2005


This is a great shot of the wide selection offered at market. This is all at one lady's "spot" - you can see many types of vegetables - peppers, cabbage, carrots, leek or green onion, red onions, hot peppers and some kind of root vegetable, cans of tomato paste, various types of magi (bouillon cubes - for flavoring food) little packages of stuff she has bagged herself and in the lower right hand corner are bags of dried mushrooms & some kind of bean/pea.

Saturday, January 15, 2005

Alexandre


This is a photo of Alexandre all bundled up for bed.
Alexandre is our newest addition that we got November 30th, the day after I arrived home. He was born 2 months premature and is just now 7lbs even though he is now 3 months old. He is a precious gift from God. This photo was taken just after he kept me up most of the night! He takes turns sleeping in my room or Karen's room so that atleast part of the time we can get a good night's sleep.

What a gorgeous view!!!


This is the gorgeous view from just outside our gate down the canal. The water level in the canal is quite high in this shot and frequently it overflows onto the road which makes it difficult to get into our property. But the views are just one of the many reasons that I love Haiti.

Saturday, January 01, 2005

Beach day


Here is a shot of the view we had while we were at the beach. We spent the day Thursday at Moulin Sur Mer, which is a hotel in Mountrouis, which is the city where I lived when I taught my first year in Haiti, though I never went to the hotel while I lived there! You can come and spend the day at the hotel and enjoy their beach, pool, etc. It was a very nice day.


This is a photo taken from the shoreline of the little gazebo type thing they have jutting into the water where you can eat, sit enjoy. When the water rises you would be right out in the water, but while we were there it was very shallow water all around it.


This the sunset we enjoyed Thursday night as we prepared to leave the beach after our day of enjoying the sand and ocean. It was a great, relaxing day.

view from the plane


This is a photo of Haiti from the plane on its decent into Port au Prince.

Port au Prince from the air


This is another shot out of the plane window of Port au Prince. Those are all homes in the lower half of the photo, built very close together.

Bridge jumping


This is a shot of 5 of the guys from the work team we had at the beginning of December jumping off the bridge into the canal right outside our property.That bridge is the "highway/main road" and our canal road - access road to our land is right at the end of it (where I am standing taking the photo) They swam in it a couple of times and would get quite the crowd watching them. This day while I was up trying to get this photo, a doctor (still in his scrubs) walked up to me and asked me what the guys were doing and when I said they were visiting from Calgary, doing some work down at our children's village and the doctor chuckled and said that he would see them all in a couple of days to treat whatever they picked up in the water. We thought it was very funny because none of us who live here would step a foot into the canal but these guys jumped in without a care in the world. Anything to cool down after working all day in the hot sun!

Hello 2005...

Wow, can't believe that it is already 2005! I have been back in Haiti since the 29th of November and time has flown by. We had a workteam arrive just 4 short days after I did and they kept us busy for 10 days and then Karen's daughter, son-in-law and 4 grandkids plus one of the young ladies from the workteam stayed on for an extra 2 1/2 weeks. Anika leaves tomorrow and the Wilson clan leaves Monday. It has been so wonderful to be back "home" and that is what Haiti is to me. It is home. BC will always be where I am from and it is home as well but Haiti is where I know God has called me to for right now.

I pray that 2005 will be a great year for everyone and that it will be a year in which we can see God's fingerprints on our lives clearly.


Happy New Year

Bondye beni ou (God bless you)