It has officially been one week since I arrived in Port-au-Prince! It has gone by very fast, mainly due to the amount of work I've been doing and all of the new experiences that I have had over the last seven days.
Last night there was a big rainstorm, the first inkling of more rain to come over the next weeks. While it was beautiful and perfect to go to sleep to, this morning is stifling already at 6:30am and I know it'll just get worse as the days goes on. I'm just counting down til 9pm when the A/C kicks on in my room. It's the scariest part of the day though because in order to power the air conditioners at night for the hotel they have to switch to the big generator which requires that they shut the little one for a couple minutes. The result is pitch black darkness everywhere in the hotel, the lobby, the bar, and my room. It's such a silly thought but I plan where I'll be when the lights go out every night. The other day I was in the front lobby near the doors to the street outside when they went out and I just had to stand there in silence and darkness and hope that they turned back on soon. Terrifying!
Tonight, everyone with my group is heading back over to Hotel Oloffson to hear this band RAM play and mainly just to have an excuse to break up the routine of the everyday.
34 days and counting til I return home, not that anyone's counting : )
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