Read Paul Biddle's Seventh Instalment from Haiti
Well it’s raining here in Port-au-Prince and I hear it 's wonderful weather in the UK ….the Caribbean, what can I say! |
The building work is moving on a pace with the accommodation nearly completed in Arcahaie along with the massive walls in Delmas; the difference is incredible from the destroyed buildings we found when we got here. I cannot believe we got the project off the ground so fast.
It's six months on from the earthquake and for those of us who have been here all that time there are changes to see. Life in Haiti has always been hard and the poverty extreme but the markets are full, the rubble is being cleared and music fills the air most nights. |
The World Cup has been an absolutely joyous occasion for the Haitians with workers stopping to cheer and applaud the various teams, cars with flags and groups running along the roads singing
During the last game, Holland versus Germany, I had been asked to meet some senior prison managers. When I arrived they insisted that we watch the game. Apparently that was why they wanted to meet me. Bill Shankly’s quote about football and life springs to mind!
I have a stinking cold and our cook, bless her, mothers all of us and is constantly making special soups for Bill and various potions made up of bark, leaves and who knows what for me .
I told her I had a sore throat and she spent the morning brewing this concoction and then made me drink it . You will be pleased to know my sore throat has gone and I slept really well!!!.
Our cook, and I do love her to bits , likes to give us goat for lunch . But why does goat smell like goat?
We are in our last few weeks of the mission and I leave in a few weeks . I hope to undertake a few more blogs before I finish……ah is that goat for lunch, yep ....