Well friends,
Here I sit to put another post together . . . since I've told you more about Haiti in my first post -- I'll mostly stick to showing pictures this time -- and explaining where needed. So here we go . . .
The following pictures are on my walk to the clinic . . . the green clinic is
nestled about a seven-minute walk from our mission compound. I walked this trail at least four times a day, often more. It was beautiful walking under the
swaying palms and tropical greens, towards the clinic. Part of the
walk was on trail, part was on the road. Lizards always scurried from underfoot.
Bird singing filled the air. Cows and goats and horses and donkeys and
sheep and chickens and roosters and pigens were everywhere. Thatched huts or houses with tin roofs (owned by the richer), were
settled along the trails and roads. The clinic is one of the
biggest building in the small village of Lasource. There are nine Haitian workers there,
four nurses and two pharmacists, and a few other workers. The only church in the village is next to the clinic.
My first Saturday in Haiti a number of us staff from the clinic climbed in the back of the pick-up and drove over mountains to a village close to an hour away . . . there we had an HIV testing post. It was that day that I first started with symptoms of the Chikungunya virus.
Drawing blood for HIV tests.
Many waiting to be tested . . .
Our food at the end of the testing day -- rice with sauce and goat meat. Yum!
Making cookies with the Haitian pastor's daughter . . .
. . . always in my room were LIZZARDS! I hated it at the starting -- but I got used to it :-) Only once did I distroy one when I found him on my BED!
The lovely view of valleys and mountains out my bedroom window.
Mmm -- a mango!
A "Haitian" apricot.
An adorable little baby girl at the malnourished children's day at the clinic.
Two of the nurses working with the malnourished children's program . . .
. . . this little boy had the cutest smile and giggle! So adorable . . .
. . . another cutie during the pediatric day . . .
. . . making some passion fruit juice -- I got addicted to that stuff ;-}
Taking blood . . .
. . . which was than sent to a hospital's lab about two hours away . . .
. . . a beautiful valley seen from on-top a mountain on our way to the beach . . .
LOOK! -- it's paved roads. I hadn't seen those in weeks :-)
. . . and red dirt . . .
The lovely Caribbean Sea!
The water was so warm I could have swam forever :-)
A sand-crab.
Lunch at the beach restaurant.
Which was this hut :-)
I found this in the ocean!
Haitian ginger cookies.
And Haitian bread . . .
Baskets I bought from a man who walked three hours from the mountain to sell them . . .
Well friends -- that is all I have for now . . . Keep on the lookout for my final post from Haiti coming up!
Have a wonderful evening!
~Clarissa
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