Well everyone our little medical mission team has landed safely in Miami! We are awaiting our last plane for the 5 hour flight home!
I have spent many hours writing and starting Monday Betty will begin posting the entire experience! Look for it! I promise it will be an interesting read!!
Well darlings as much as Betty has tried to blog it’s been busy since we have arrived. We are leaving at this very moment to the island of La Gonave and there is no cell service. So for the next 8 days Betty will be silent. But when I return be prepared for a slurry of wonderful stories!
Bon voyage
It’s almost Haitian time
Five hours down and six hours to go before Haitian time will encompass our souls. What is Haitian time you ask? Haitian time is the very moment our little naive vision of the world stands still. In Haiti everything works on Haitian time (uh duh, you are in Haiti). The people of Haiti all look as though they are going somewhere in a hurry, everyone looks as though they have a purpose, yet it’s all a ruse. For you see on Haitian time it’s all about the experience, it all about working at a comfortable pace, it’s all about getting the job done, but not too fast, and not to slow. Haitian time means starting when the sun comes up and finishing around three when the sun reaches its peak and it is a hundred degrees outside with 80% humidity. Haitian time means no worries it will happen when it happens.
I am looking forward to Haitian time. As Americans we focus on the hustle, we spin our wheels constantly searching for any and all information we can shove into our over scheduled lives. Instant gratification is the cornerstone of our existence. Our phones talk to us, our cars drive for us, and we have instant television on any and all devices in our procession. You texted me, a response is instant, send me an e-mail and I am expected to respond as soon as possible, you actually take the time to place a phone call and gosh darn it, that call had better not go to voice mail because I know you carry that phone 24/7 and you are probably on Facebook right now!
Haitian time- the moment our lives slow down. The moment we turn off our devices (to save power since there is no electricity) and return, if just for a little while to being people. Talking, laughing, caring, inter-acting with one another with no expectations.
Yeah, Haitian time.
Alright my phone just beeped at me and my laptop just flashed a load of e-mails, I have to go….
In a little more than 17 hours Betty will be hitting the bricks, pounding the pavement, and taking to the sky’s; that’s right folks the world is my oyster and I have an overwhelming urge to find a pearl. I am traveling once again to the country of Haiti on a mission. For those of you following my blog, you will remember what a moving and profound experience this 10 day excursion was to my meager existence here on earth. Last year at this time I found myself rediscovered, enlightened, exhausted, and filled with joy all at the same time.
10 days of hard labor filled with team building, camaraderie, interaction, injuries and the word of God spread with zeal by the locals we assisted. 10 days of learning another culture, making new friends and easing a small town’s burden, even if just for a little while. 10 whole days, 10 WHOLE DAYS!
Well ladies and gentlemen it will be another 10 days, but this time the adventure has been taken up a notch! Brought to a different level, the bar has been raised and standards for performance put under an eye of scrutiny. You see this year there will be no hammers, no bolt cutters, no saw blades, no drills, oh no for this year we carry not suitcases filled with hundreds of pounds of construction materials but pound after pound of medical supplies! This year we are arriving with a dental team! A dental team whose sole mission is to bring a smile to the faces of a small fishing village on the island of La Gonave!
After arriving in Haiti and staying our first night at the fabulous United Methodist Church guest house, our team will be carted off to the port where a boat will await our arrival for transportation to the island of La Gonave! Oh yes you read right, a BOAT! Survive the 7 hour flight then survive the 3 hour tour aboard the SS Haiti! Sounds like adventure at its finest! Now this is no ordinary boat mind you, it is a sloop, a sailboat, it is something straight from 1954! As long as it floats and holds all our gear I am ok, yet somehow the thought of taking the “three hour tour” has left me a tad weary as I am certain both Ginger and Mary Ann will not be accompanying me on this maiden voyage! Oh Well…..
So stay tuned as I have powered up a new laptop, broken out my best dictionary and am poised ready to write about what looks to be an incredible adventure!
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