Mission Work in Haiti

He traveled a lot, air 713,000 miles as of today, and this writing. In 1986, I traveled to Haiti for a stay of two weeks to make someone?? No missionary work up in the mountains, so really do not know today, with the exception of some turmoil in the newspaper I read, and catching up with him used as a point every three months on some people who I met back then, stopped a few years ago too, but let me tell you about Haiti knew back in 1986, he can get better.

Firstly, people were very warm, good, but the poor, for most part, anyone?? N very poor. He was at various locations, but Port-au-Prince, was my first stop where I stayed and slept on top of the roof of an orphanage and cockroaches brushed my back while trying to get to sleep (did some puppet playing with the kids there) , after two days there, we drove by car to the mountains (mountains are not steep as in Peru, but difficult to drive a car up, and muddy), and place in a Baptist church, sleeping on the floor, as everyone we go up there , flexible blanket-wood brought forward to blast some rubber mattresses, so some of us got a better night sleep than others: the village was very small Rankeitte-called (excuse the spelling, that's how it sounded ). He was only about a hundred people there, and went occasionally to cap the Haitian, a few miles down the mountain where he was. I helped structure a medical clinic for poor people there, the doctor said he would not try to do it unless someone, and that nineteen of us out of Minnesota (young, old, male and female), jumped in a jet, which flew in Haiti, and he did just that.

Blacks are descendants of African slaves ever imported into Hispaniola in the sixteenth century. The Cubans I remember were descendants of these slaves. I took one back six weeks of the course before it was time to Haiti and there only remained in Haiti for two weeks, but I feel like I-feel-it is often wise to know the background and culture of a new place in the world in which you are intending to visit, well, you get fewer surprises, or at least prepare him something to them when they come and go.

In any case, slaves intermarried with French, so you get some lovely women there with mixed blood. Then I noticed a handful of white residents in the back of the republic, not many, mainly concentrated in Port-au-Prince. The French may be the official language but Creole is spoken when I was there. It is mixed with the native English, so listen closely: there is a saying in Haiti: the poor man dreams of a chicken, he dreams of an ox: The derri of Cbien cbien; Cbien devant: Monsieur Cbien, therefore this leads me to my next lecture. As in Peru, the Haitian peasant is what you call, theft honorable ... and perhaps a small fight mixed, but I have seen only a very limited part of that Haiti was of course carefully, and I'm sure was lucky. They are in a good mood and somewhat philosophical, not sure why they are poor as mice, but they smile all the time, however, appear to have a good outlook on life.

Because they are poor, and because of this lack of income-especially in the mountainous area, they get their neighbors to help them make big jobs such as: building a shelter, it is more like a cabin or something in that order, and in return, help them later in the construction area. And a feast is normally done soon after construction is complete, ie, similar to the Peruvians "

When we built the clinic to pay the help-anyone?? No aid is, and we had a meeting in the mist of a fire, and some consumption, with overhead midnight moonlight, and we dance and welcome to put that last brick in place.

On the day you see them, [they that are Haitians, preaching Christianity ordinary people], and at night you hear the drums of voodoo. That's what I call red beans with sweet potatoes. Well, I could write endlessly about Haiti and its charming people, and this is actually my second article on Haiti, I did a back in 2005. Haiti never gets old for me, I'm still fond of that country, and I hope you find peace among themselves.