Wednesday, April 8, 2009

OK, taxes have been filed...or at least filled out. Then they went to Mountrois to go to Mike......who is taking Anne to the airport in Port today........who will fly to Miami, then Michigan.......and then put them in a mailbox. See? No problems! We Haitians don't worry about such things, they just seem to get done. :)

The kids have been anxious about Easter break, locally schools get most of the week off...but here Friday only and they are bummed a little. The local schools giving the week off do so mainly to accomodate voodoo holidays around Easter, kind of a backwards arrangement, but it is what it is. Each day the talk is about "only 8 weeks left!". I guess school kids are working on getting to summer as much as we did when I was in school.

Dmitri and Christian have basically left school. Dmitri got into trouble again and was sent home, and he was going to Port with his brother Christian to get passports last week. Well, they never returned. Neither one wanted to learn English or work in the books. Honestly, the parents did them no favors putting them here, they would have been better in a Haitian school, but the parents didn't want that. They thought the kids would be better off knowing English also, and they would, but they obviously won't work at it, so maybe this will work out better for them wherever they are.

It is WARM now. The days are getting highly sweatified around here, though it still is not bad in the early morning. Again, it is a very mild time here, and it is not usual for this time of year. Take the gifts you get and be glad for them!

The road is bad....really bad.....getting close to horribly bad. It takes close to 20 minutes to get close to the edge of town, the potholes are just getting deeper and wider. We are seriously considering a helicopter....... :) Bouncing down the road is a common thing, we see things that fall off of trucks all the time, and in the last week, a gazillion or so vehicles broken down on the roads....not on the sides of the roads, on the roads, in the smack dab middle of the roads! But that is how it is done here. Oops, forgot to get rice out for Rose, gotta run, take care in the land of snow and baseball.

Djebenis tout moun.