Day 2 March 1^st 2014.

  Most of us were not able to sleep last night at the airport. We tried, honestly we tried, but the floor was hard, the chairs were not comfortable, the lights were bright and there was some construction going on down the hall from where we were.

  When we got through security, we only had about half an hour before our plane started boarding, so we sat down to wait and about ten minutes before we could star boarding, the flight attendants said that our flight would be delayed because they had to fix something that got loose during the previous flight, so our plane now left at 7:40am instead of 7:05am. We got delayed once more until 9:00am.

  We got into Porta-Prince Haiti at 11:00am and from there was picked up by Andy, who agreed to come get us. On the way to the Guesthouse, we rode in the back of an open cattle truck, which was really cool. I’ve never done something like that before. We got stuck in traffic so instead of the two hours it should have taken us, it took four. The views that we saw coming though, were breath taking, and I don’t think any of us really minded the long ride until about the third hour rolled around. Then we just wanted out and off that truck. By the time we got to the Guesthouse, all of us girls had really snarly hair.

  For supper we had rice and a hot sauce to pour over it. We also had meat balls or chicken legs, a coleslaw and bread and plantain, which is kind of like a banana that’s pressed together and fried.  I thought it was a big flat French-fry.

  In all that we did today, everything was awesome.  The ride was amazing and eye-opening.  .  It was shocking to see how much the people have to do to survive.  Meeting the “family” at the guesthouse was really cool as was getting to know the other team members.  Today was all about smiles and waving and getting to know people.  Good night.  Margaret J