My old roommate,L, leaves this week. Her stay in Haiti is as long as mine. She has been the reason I have maintained sanity. Her wisdom eases me. She has been my debriefing that is vital to understanding or trying to understand everything here.
Another lady, T, comes the same week. She is here for a year with her great aunt and young daughter. Her daughter will be my new friend. Haiti attracts all kinds of personalities. Yet we’re all unique in our own way put under the umbrella of religious, left, or hippie. Something unites us, outside of our service for Haiti whether it be our experiences on life, our views and thoughts or our passions in life. Each person I have met, that is here to serve has helped me grow on my journey in some way. I’m not sure if I could bounce ideas and thoughts back in forth in my head without many of the basic conversations I’ve had here with other foreigners. I cannot explain myself to everyone on a normal day, let alone the Haitain people when there is a massive cultural and language barrier. However my conversations with the director on monogamy and life’s journeys and woman’s rights get interesting. I love those nights.
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