Chelsie here,

Today was absolutely crazyy and I have to say I was extra thankful for the fluid in my head that keeps my brain from hitting anything. We spend alot of our day in the car and traveling from place to place to ultimately get to La Torre Bucan where we delivered the gps/sonar system, the 40 hp motor, and the fishing equipment. On our 4 hour journey to the Island, I noticed something that I have not seen in full anywhere else in Haiti sence ive arrived. Out past port au prince there would be places that looked like they were stable. They were clean, people were building, there was trash pick up, and they were growing things. It looked like how Haiti was meant to look. Being here in the mountians where the smallest things we do impact so much, it is easy to feel as if its not a problem, and that we will fix it with motivation. Then going into the city its like that feeling gets completely washed from your system. There are people everywhere and trash where there should not be trash. Everytime you think your entering into an area that has been fixed, you turn the corner and boom, theres another tent city. It has really got me thinking. We had alot of time while traveling today to talk of the recycling and all that. well suposedly there was a large NGO that wanted to be stationed here on the mainland and be soleley for recycling trash. This would completly benefit the people because its not because they are lazy that there is trash everywhere, they literally have NO where to put it. NO WHERE. the government is not even providing some sort of disposal of the trash that is lining the streets. So the problem that this company had was that the government wanted 50% of their profits. Well this is not an incentive for a large NGO to come in to. If we could get a large company to strike a deal (how ever out rageous the cut) with the government, and that be their tax write off each year…just imagine with the determineation of the Hatian people, this place would be CLEAN. That would be the first step. and then you can go from there. Im really thinking about how to do this so if anyone has ideas (partnerships) or wants to help me please let me know! But back to our day- very wonderful I got to teach the villagers how to use a casting rod which they thought was just awesome! The boat ride was amazing and I got lotsssss of sun. The people were amazing and I feel like we had a sucessful day. Right now we are having our meeting with Father Roosevelt talking about the buying of the pigs for the familes here tomorrow- which will be soooo cute! I cant even describe how many pigs and goats and chickens…animals in general that I never see and the people here must think Im crazy cause I run after them and try and pet them- which they just are not having haha. Everyone else is egar to blog so I will be handing over the computer. Tonight is donkey round 2, raining champion right herrree. I also get to take a shower tonight which is exciting. Until tomorrow <3