Evidently not blogging in weeks makes me want to post. Maybe it's being stuck on lockdown all day. Regardless, two posts today at Digging Out Haiti.

I've decided to stop re-posting my blog entries here, since it's kind of a pain and everything's up over at Digging Out Haiti anyhow. More to come there about cholera, flooding, mud, heavy equipment, and life as an aid worker in Haiti.

The cholera outbreak in the Artibonite valley is far from us here in Leogane. Well, far by Haitian standards, where the 40 kilometer trip from Leogane to Port au Prince routinely takes up to four hours. I don't know much more than what's on the news; Thursday night we heard rumors of sickness from contaminated food or water that was in the North ( Read more... )

This episode of This American Life rings very true with my experiences here ( Read more... )

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This has been a hell of a couple of weeks. I was going to write about Bill Clinton visiting. He rolled in with an entourage of about twenty UN SUVs to see a shelter that CHF, an NGO with a base in our backyard, had assembled across the street. He shook hands with some volunteers and posed for pictures, but I had gotten bored of hours of waiting in ( Read more... )

How am I doing, anyhow? At the moment, as well as I have since I arrived, exactly two months ago. It's Sunday, our one day off, and I'm just trying to squeeze in some lazy relaxation, but it's been an eventful week. On Wednesday, a hotly anticipated and repeatedly delayed container full of donations arrived. There were lots of miscellaneous, but ( Read more... )

Leogane, Haiti, meeting the neighbors ( Read more... )

I promised myself I'd write more this week, but I really beat myself up with a sledgehammer a few days in a row. Then I thought, if I can't write while I'm exhausted, I'm not going to write much about this experience. My defining characteristics over the last three weeks have been exhausted, filthy, and, what would you call a mixture of awe, horror ( Read more... )

Hello again all. This will be a tired update after a hot day demolishing a concrete house, but several people have asked about our living accommodations, so here you go ( Read more... )