Only in Haiti would one wake up early for the exciting opportunity of going to.... wait for it... a hardware store!! That's right, I woke up at 5:30 this morning in order to tag along to the new hardware store in town. Traffic has been crazy lately in PaP, due to all the extra NGOs, the international armies, and extra UN personnel, and the new hardware store is on the opposite side of town. So we left early to beat traffic, and were so successful that we were 20 minutes early. Thankfully there was a nice 'garden centre' near by and I was able to buy some new plants. Let me explain about the hardware store, first of all, 90% of my time is spent with guys these days and 80% of their time is spent talking about tools:) so therefore I've heard a lot about this store, it was described to me as a replica of Home Depot, and who doesn't like Home Depot??? (okay, well I did boycott for a bit, but that is a story for another day) Now, don't tell any of the guys I know in Haiti, but I was a bit disappointed by the store, it's more of a man's store, it has all the serious stuff (cement, large pieces of wood) and none of the fun stuff (things that are functional but also pretty).
Now going anywhere with Randy is always a bit of an adventure. One errand always turns into many more and we often run into people that he knows and MUST talk to. We left at 7am and didn't finish until almost 4pm with a short pit stop in there.
However, we did have a successful day. We managed to buy a fair amount of stuff, we met up with a team that is working with Ben Hopp, we had a meeting regarding our new temporary location of the school, we got a ton of great pictures and we even managed to squeeze in a visit to Epid'or (Haiti's version of Subway and McDonald's) Overall a good day. Tomorrow I think I'll sit at my desk all day and work on paperwork, too much excitement for me:)
1 comment:
haha love the Depot story Kim.
Thanks for your updates! We continue to lift you all up in prayer!!
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