Business as Usual

Grace and I made it safely to Haiti. Just to update everyone. We are safe and sound at the Tlucek's house. And got to sleep on the balcony with an amazing breeze and very little bugs...yeah thats right be jealous.

But on a serious not as I was getting in the car after our escapades inside the "little airport" (which is really a little room with a baggage conveyor belt and lots of people...), people were still standing outside trying to get you take take their taxi, which is obviously the best one to take...and there are still people hanging off the fence asking you for money. The thought that kept coming to me was "Business as Usual". There has been this horrible event that took place and when you look at the people, it seems as though nothing has happened. They are just here doing business as usual.

Blurb is the word

So just a quick little blurb.

If you don't already know I am leaving for Haiti on Friday. I am going to be gone for 10 days and will be working with Byron and Shelley Tlucek doing English Camp. I am also bringing in fabric for the sewing program and will be working with Heartline Ministries (who also oversees English Camp...) bringing in supplies such as birthing kits, for their full time clinic/birthing center that they are hard at work setting up. I know? Awesome right? So I will be doing all of that and who knows what else.

Oh and for any one that cares...I get to spend from, roughly, 10:30 am to 4:00 pm in the Miami airport...I know you can just see me leaping for joy. This is the time that people watching will be in full swing...pictures to come be looking.

Word.

Remembering Sarah

This is an old video that I made a few years ago. I watched it today and balled my eyes out.

We are...

Haiti 2010

So I have a plane ticket. Leaving June 25th, 2010. Coming back July 6th, 2010.

It is kinda leaving a bittersweet taste in my mouth. It has been two years since I have been to Haiti. I was there for English Camp. I am going for English Camp this year as well. I wish that I could say that it was going to be the same as the past years. 60 kids in 60 kids out, for six weeks (I am only going for the first week this time) and done. It is crazy enough as it is that way. This year there are a few new factors. Haiti is still having aftershocks. They just hadanother earthquake not to long ago. So the ground is still shaking. Shifting. Changing. So English camp has to change. I am pretty sure that means the workers have to change and not expect what has been before.

So I will be in Haiti for 11 days. Pray for me. Keep me in your thoughts.

Lamou Vire Tet.

Luke 7:47

Alyssa

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Today was a day that I began.

I am not sure that I will finish it.

It has become hard to live in that twenty four hour period, between sun up and sun down, in the spaces that we call day and night on this wretched planet.

Its dangerous not to mention lonely.

Where have you been? I have needed you.

The space of the night is when I feel real fear.

Thats when I feel real terror, that no man can calm.

Where have you been? I have needed you.

Precious: New Movie (You should go see it...)