Haiti - Day 2

Day 2 was a very eventful day.  Tim and I went out for an early morning run through the Haitian countryside as the sun rose. It was an absolutely spectacular way to start the day. The food here is so good. Everything is fresh, home grown and full of flavor. Lets just say there won’t be any weight lost on this trip, at least by me.

After breakfast we all loaded up into the back of a pickup truck and held on for dear life as we drove to our well site. The main roads in the city are mostly paved, otherwise its all dirt roads that are incredibly rough. We pulled up to our completed well and started to get ready to paint. There were several people from the community watching us paint, pretty soon the community was there helping us paint their well. It was really cool to see how excited they were and willing to help out. Even the little kids were helping us paint. We ran out of paint just before lunch so we headed back and enjoyed another amazing meal.

After lunch we headed north about 45 min to see a well being drilled. Along the way we past the well site that Tim and I helped build on our last visit. It was cool to be able to share that with the team that’s down here now. We then arrived where Haiti Outreach had their largest hydraulic drill rig. They were drilled down to 150 feet when we got there and were testing the depth for water. They would blow air down the hole to force water out up to 2 feet into the air from the hole. It was a pretty sweet experience.

We then got to tour a massive Clarin factory, which is where they turn sugar cane juice into alcohol to be sold to make rum. We then went to a small sugar cane processing plant where they take freshly cut sugar cane and squeeze the juice from it. It is a very sticky process but we all got to sample the fresh squeezed juice, and it was delicious! Once we returned back to the guesthouse we enjoyed another meal then watched Égalité for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution a documentary about the Haitian revolt over France in the 1800s.

Well, that’s all for now, keep checking back for more updates!