This past week was much better! We worked at a couple different clinics! One was at a closed down amusement park, which was actually scary! Similar to something out of a horror movie, plus amusement park in Haiti thats just odd! The UN did an aid distribution during our clinic it was pretty cool to get to see how that works!! A little crazy but everyone got tarps, and a bucket with water, soap, toothpaste, and TP!! Yesterday, was my last day of work ; Ryna and I decided to go for the ER. Nothing too exciting, two women were hit by a car, but they both were rushed to the OR pretty quick so we did nothing. One had a huge chunk out of her knee which was pretty gross and looked painful!!
Privacy please! Ok earlier in the week a woman tried to share a shower with me, and seriously got mad at me when I said no! Last night, I was awoken to find one of my odd roommates bent over in my face! She wanted to tell me a story! Maybe I'm judgmental but there are just weird people in the world, and she is one of them! I mean I was sleeping!! Then in the middle of the night she woke me up because she fell off her bed! She had put a huge inflatable mattress on top of her cot, not the most brilliant move I have seen! Today, I was in the toilet at camp and two Haitian men decided to come in wash their hands, and have a conversation in the bathroom! Excuse me, Women's Bathroom!! Awkward! Starting tomorrow my privacy will no longer be violated b/c I'm heading to Passe Catabois in northern Haiti! Though I will miss those random entertaining moments, that cross all personal boundaries! I know I have a flare for the dramatic but these stories are completely true and unexaggerated!!!
I'm sad to be leaving Port Au Prince! It has been challenging and interesting to see a different side of Haiti, and witness disaster relief! But I am ready to go to Passe Catabois, to be part of the community there, and to just get settled! I love PC because I get to know the patients, and my neighbors; here I am mostly surrounded by white people which is weird in Haiti!
My thoughts as I leave PAP are this: I do not understand suffering at all, or why it happens!? I am at a loss as to why one house stands, and the next is destroyed! Why Haiti? Its sooooo frustrating, that a place with so little became even more devastated; which I did not think was possible. And how do you go back to normal life after being exposed to all this. I am also completely freaked out by natural disasters, before they were kinda fascinating, and now they are the most horrifying thing I can imagine!!
But the craziest thought I have is that the earthquake may have been the best thing for Haiti! I wish those people had not died, definitely I am haunted by the thoughts of people trapped in the rubble, hoping to be pulled out. I wish that had not happened! But now people do care about Haiti. Haitians have rcv'd better healthcare in the last month than they ever have! And people really care, volunteers are heartbroken by what they see, and want to do more! I think the Haitians know this because the Haitians seem soooo hopeful! Its given me more hope for Haiti than I could have imagined, and most surprisingly hope in the US.
Statistics: Babies delivered - three and 1/2(I got the head, someone else finished), privacy violations- immeasurable; tarantulas seen and killed- 1; malnourished kids- 3; clinics/hospitals worked at- 8; autographs not gotten- 2; current # of bruises on my body- 15; mosquito bites- 0; chocolate consumed- too much to count; patients died- 0(yippee); ice cold showers-28; breakdowns- 2; Anderson Cooper sightings- 0; wounds cleaned- I can't remember I blocked it, b/c I hate wound care!
Funniest/Most Terrifying moment: Totally face planting while trying to run out of the building during the earthquake while being left behind by Lisa and Lisa!!!
What I'll miss the most: the people I got to meet here! So many awesome volunteers, it has been encouraging to be surrounded by people who are enthusiastic about helping Haiti!! And just people who care about other people, thats pretty awesome!!
Tomorrow the new adventure begins with the small plane ride(HATE it), followed by the two hour taptap ride(LOVE it)!! Then I get to meet the German Dr. who I will be working with, I really hope I like him and can filter all my inappropriate German jokes(but I'm part German so its ok if I make them)! Internet will be limited, so don't be offended by my delayed response on email! But since you all have internet that is not an excuse for you to not email me!
Privacy please! Ok earlier in the week a woman tried to share a shower with me, and seriously got mad at me when I said no! Last night, I was awoken to find one of my odd roommates bent over in my face! She wanted to tell me a story! Maybe I'm judgmental but there are just weird people in the world, and she is one of them! I mean I was sleeping!! Then in the middle of the night she woke me up because she fell off her bed! She had put a huge inflatable mattress on top of her cot, not the most brilliant move I have seen! Today, I was in the toilet at camp and two Haitian men decided to come in wash their hands, and have a conversation in the bathroom! Excuse me, Women's Bathroom!! Awkward! Starting tomorrow my privacy will no longer be violated b/c I'm heading to Passe Catabois in northern Haiti! Though I will miss those random entertaining moments, that cross all personal boundaries! I know I have a flare for the dramatic but these stories are completely true and unexaggerated!!!
I'm sad to be leaving Port Au Prince! It has been challenging and interesting to see a different side of Haiti, and witness disaster relief! But I am ready to go to Passe Catabois, to be part of the community there, and to just get settled! I love PC because I get to know the patients, and my neighbors; here I am mostly surrounded by white people which is weird in Haiti!
My thoughts as I leave PAP are this: I do not understand suffering at all, or why it happens!? I am at a loss as to why one house stands, and the next is destroyed! Why Haiti? Its sooooo frustrating, that a place with so little became even more devastated; which I did not think was possible. And how do you go back to normal life after being exposed to all this. I am also completely freaked out by natural disasters, before they were kinda fascinating, and now they are the most horrifying thing I can imagine!!
But the craziest thought I have is that the earthquake may have been the best thing for Haiti! I wish those people had not died, definitely I am haunted by the thoughts of people trapped in the rubble, hoping to be pulled out. I wish that had not happened! But now people do care about Haiti. Haitians have rcv'd better healthcare in the last month than they ever have! And people really care, volunteers are heartbroken by what they see, and want to do more! I think the Haitians know this because the Haitians seem soooo hopeful! Its given me more hope for Haiti than I could have imagined, and most surprisingly hope in the US.
Statistics: Babies delivered - three and 1/2(I got the head, someone else finished), privacy violations- immeasurable; tarantulas seen and killed- 1; malnourished kids- 3; clinics/hospitals worked at- 8; autographs not gotten- 2; current # of bruises on my body- 15; mosquito bites- 0; chocolate consumed- too much to count; patients died- 0(yippee); ice cold showers-28; breakdowns- 2; Anderson Cooper sightings- 0; wounds cleaned- I can't remember I blocked it, b/c I hate wound care!
Funniest/Most Terrifying moment: Totally face planting while trying to run out of the building during the earthquake while being left behind by Lisa and Lisa!!!
What I'll miss the most: the people I got to meet here! So many awesome volunteers, it has been encouraging to be surrounded by people who are enthusiastic about helping Haiti!! And just people who care about other people, thats pretty awesome!!
Tomorrow the new adventure begins with the small plane ride(HATE it), followed by the two hour taptap ride(LOVE it)!! Then I get to meet the German Dr. who I will be working with, I really hope I like him and can filter all my inappropriate German jokes(but I'm part German so its ok if I make them)! Internet will be limited, so don't be offended by my delayed response on email! But since you all have internet that is not an excuse for you to not email me!
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