Epilogue: The Adventurous Life

The next day seemed to speed by like the houses and faces along a Port-au-Prince street. Highlights included eating fresh mangoes, playing hide and seek with Josue's little daughter, Jomelie, helping Kat video-interview John and Josue, and reflecting on the trip in a team debriefing session that night. (I also found out that, 2,000 miles…

Party Time, Haitian Style!

“We're gonna get blasted,” Siri told me. “Haitians like it loud.” IFOSuD's 5-year anniversary celebration was about to start, and Siri, my dad, and I were excited. Except that for some reason, we had decided to sit right in front of a stack of massive loudspeakers. Most of the other members of our team were…

Lessons from a Haitian Church

The church service my family and I attended in Haiti was the longest in my life, but there was something beautiful about it. Even though the speakers gave their sermons in Creole, so I had no idea what they were saying 99% of the time, their intensity and passion still made it interesting. They shouted,…