Travel
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More Bank Fun
At one point I was having a hard time finding change, and I went to the bank to exchange large bills for small ones. I wrote a post about that. Now I’ve been having the reverse problem: I have too much change and small bills…
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My Brush With Hatian Healthcare
We were getting ready to start devotions when one of the young guys came in holding his hand and obviously in pain. I asked what the problem was and he said his little finger had got stuck in the door of a van and had…
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Haiti Can Bring Things Down to Their Common Denominator
One thing about life in Haiti is that life often seems boiled down to common denominators. Take food, for example. Are not rice and beans two “building block” foods? Are not beans supposed to be put into burritos along with guacamole, lettuce, tomatoes, finely grated…
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A Few Frustrating Anecdotes from My Life
Sometimes I feel like my life is one big computer game with the difficulty level set on, “Hard.” Visiting the bank today felt that way. There were around 50 people in line in front of me, and I waited there an hour and a half…
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Baptism
Awhile ago, three of the guys in the bakery/discipleship program made decisions to follow Christ with their lives (Richemond, Wilson, and Manno). As a result, they wanted to get baptized. Moise and I started looking around to find a place where we could do a…
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Why Not Much Writing
One reason I haven’t been writing much lately is because there has become too much pressure on my writing. Let me explain. At one point in the past I decided to add a subscription button. Following that, quite a few people subscribed. Now I know…
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Bakery of Charity
Someone from a nearby orphanage came by our bakery last week giving us a paper asking if we could please give them some free bread for their Christmas meal with the kids. That sounded like a worthwihle cause, so on Christmas Eve I purchased six…
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Finding Small Change in Haiti is an Uphill Battle
One reason shopping can be difficult here is that many stores simply do not have change. Restaurants either. Roadside stands are the same way. Even Deli Mart, a semi-nice grocery chain, frequently does not have small change. Woe to the customer who doesn’t have exact…
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Disclaimer: This post is somewhat gross
Yesterday I started feeling not so good. Then in the afternoon I started felling even worse. At one point I hit the end of myself and laid down on the concrete floor of the bakery, feeling terrible. It was around this time I started puking…
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Hitting the Ground Stumbling
After a very tiring trip, which may or may not have involved getting little sleep in Ft. Lauderdale, I arrived back in good ol’ Haiti. Honestly, the transition back here was less shocking than my transition back to the States several months ago. I think…