Day #1

Don't worry I won't number each and every day I'm here but I figured it was allowed for the first day. This morning I met with Randy and Karen at their house. Our meetings went great, they filled me in on all the goings on at the school for the last while. Next it was off to Epidor (fast food restaurant) for lunch. I drove for the FIRST time in Haiti and it went well. I don't have a car yet but I drove Randy and Karen's. I am so glad that I learned standard before coming. As well, there are some traffic lights around town that run by solar power and this really helps merging onto the main road smoothly.
After lunch we went on a major shopping spree. I bought a bedroom set, a desk and a chair, this took all afternoon if you can believe it. Tonight Jenny (my roomate) offered to help me set up one of the bedside tables. Wow, it was worse than IKEA, there was an allen key but the instructions were in Spanish! You'd think after all the IKEA furniture I've put together over the years, I would have been a bit better at it. It took us 2 hours! And we still have two more items to go. Now I understand why you can pay at the store to have it assembled for you... if I wasn't so Dutch and so cheap!!
Tomorrow will also be very busy. We are spending the day at the school meeting with the teachers, going over their long term plans and working on their daily time schedules. I look forward to reuniting with the teachers I know from before and meeting the new teachers. And tomorrow night? I think I'll put together another peice of furniture, not sure if I can convince Jenny to help me or not...