Haiti Day One

It was about 95 degrees when we got off the plane in Port Au Prince yesterday. A couple of changes were very evident as we flew in. I did not see as many tents from the air as I saw the first time and I saw several but not many new tin roofs and brightly painted houses.

To increase our chaos at the airport the plane did not have any immigration forms so that sent everypne scrambling for the forms when we landed fortunately we had help with Karen in a wheelchair who got us the forms, put us at the front of the immigration line and went and got our bags. We were zipped through customs and then the fun began with everyone trying to help us for tips. All the way along we kept looking for Patrick who was supposed to meet us at the airport. Finally he came out got packed up and headed out to Wall's our Guest House.

I do not know if it was because it was late in the afternoon or what but traffic did not seem that bad as we made the way to Wall's. I noticed a lot of the rubble which was everywhere in May was gone. One person had even build a fence of the rubble which I thought was quite ingenious as a cost saving measure. But there still were a lot of tents around which I did not see from the air. Which says the need is still great.

Once we got unloaded and check into our room it was time for dinner, which was very good (once again the hospitality and the food can not be beat for the price) which was spaghetti with vienna sausages, salad with some banana rum cake for dessert.

One of the most enjoyable things I love about Walls is the mix of people you meet when you stay there. There was a young lady who was trying to get her papers sorted out for an adoption of a child. She went to the embassy who were supposed to have her papers and they no record of her child. Today she is going another agency and she fears she is in for a long day. She is afraid she will have to go to the US Embassy because her child came through the US but being Canadian. She has no pull.

Then there were some guys from the states one who was from Wichita who spotted my Royals Shirt.

Today we meet with the board at CONASPEH and visit an orphanage and I teach a class which should be an experience, but I am looking forward to it.