Living in Haiti

Haiti is a land of sun and heat, long days and slow nights, singing and lamenting, sorrow and joy, wind and dust, crowing roosters and fighting dogs, men at work and children at play, wheeling stars and sliver moons, tremendous beauty and penetrating ugliness and mountains and mountains and mountains...

It’s still hard to believe that I have moved to Haiti. Everything is still so new to me. I’m trying to let it all sink in. I don’t start teaching until July so I should be able to get a grip on how the house runs and some aspects of the culture here. I’ve begun to pick up bits of Creole. But it’s still an alien tongue.

The bulk of my work still lies ahead of me so I have yet to face the challenges which are sure to come. Thanks for all the prayers.

Check out my humble abode. (The boys in the picture on my bookcase are my nephews.)