the team from h.e.a.r.t. in Callebasse, Haiti
Today’s post is a tangent from our typical blogs. The Fall 2013 class had the opportunity to travel to Haiti to see first hand how the things that they are learning at h.e.a.r.t. are being used in a developing country. Kalyn and Sydney compiled this lighthearted list of ways that their first month at h.e.a.r.t. helped prepare them for their time in Haiti. Enjoy!
- The simplest things, like eating a whole fish
- The extra time it takes to brush your teeth and take a shower
- Flushing a toilet by dumping a bucket of water into it
- Taking cold showers!
- Living without air conditioning
- The bumpy road! (Haiti was worse!)
- Realizing the gardening I’ve done is a lifestyle for most.
- Getting water from a well
- Recycling everything when possible!
- Being okay/used to not living in the cleanest/most sanitary environment.
- Eating rice, beans and bread!
- Dressing simply
- Praying out loud all together
- Knowing chickens can be held upside down
- Accepting cultures as being different, not weird
- Electricity being scarce
- Washing laundry by hand
- The smelly latrines here prepared me for the smells in some parts of towns
- Mountain tops with deforestation
- Being flexible
- Sleeping with bugs
- Finding quiet time with Jesus because of how time consuming daily tasks are.
- Building relationships and living in community
- Air drying wet clothes
- The amount of dishes to wash after meals/ the way they were washed
- Seeing the value in butchering animals, even though we haven’t butchered yet.
- Composting
- Scarce communication with family and friends
- Sleeping in a cabin
Kalyn works the Haitian soil using the techniques she learned at h.e.a.r.t.