Tuesday, June 24, 2008

My Last Week

I have realized that I have done a terrible job at posting new posts on this thing and that I am putting avid bloggers to shame. I am sorry for that. But in my defense the internet here isn't always reliable. For instance, today James spent two hours trying to post on his blog even though he had already written the post and was just trying to hit the actual post button.
Anyways, I am only here in Bayonnais for two more full days. Friday I will spend the majority of the day traveling to Port Au Prince spending the night at the Walls guesthouse and in the morning making my way back to the US.

The past week has been great though. James and I have been going to the river alot to explore much of Haiti that I did not get to see on my last trip in December. Classes have been going well enough but I am sad that I will be leaving them most of all. Since I have invested time in some of the students and I have only been here so little time. I also feel bad that I will be leaving James here all by his lonesome. His next two months will probably be filled with some awkward language barriers but I am sure he will persevere.

I guess I can share with you a little bit about what me and James have been encountering more recently around night time. For the Princess Bride fans: Rodents Of Unusual Size have been living in our midst. They actually are sort of close to the ROUS's size as in the movie. But really they are around a foot long which is unusual but more importantly frightening. Also there are some moths that are the size of bats, at first we mistook them for bats but still anything that is big and flys near you is just as bad. So dodging air attacks from giant moths and trying to escape the ROUS's has made this last week quite an adventure. A big upside for coming home may be the escape from these creatures. haha

I hope you all are well.

-Aaron


Also if you really want to see a good blog you should see James and encourage him in his devastating time he will have without me. just kidding
jamesinhaiti.blogspot.com
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Haiti

As many of you know Haiti became the first black republic to declare its independence in 1804 spurred by a slave rebellion. Haiti now is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere with 80% of the population living under the poverty line and 54% in abject poverty. Two-thirds of all Haitians depend on the agricultural sector, mainly small-scale subsistence farming, and remain vulnerable to damage from frequent natural disasters, exacerbated by the country's widespread deforestation. Haiti has been plagued by political violence throughout its history and more recently Haiti has made news due to the Hunger crisis and rising food prices which have caused displeased Haitians to act in the form of riots and other dangerous activities. Although Haiti seems to be nothing less than chaos, there has spawned hope in organizations like OFCB who strive to educate Haitians and change the world they live in.