Day 15: I'm on a boat!

So like we said yesterday we woke up really early aka didnt sleep. We gathered our stuff, Pierres brother picked us up, we met Pierre and headed off to catch a boat to La Gonave. It didn't take as long as I thought it would to get there. We rode in the back of a truck and we got very cold. By the time we were finished with our ride our faces were tingly. Becca and Pierre got some coffee, and I got some weird SPICY tea for breakfast. Then we got on the boat. When we were getting on the boat I was happy that I didn't fully understand Creole because Pierre told me that if I did and I was in the US I would sue the boat owner. Boat owner pa renemen gwo moun pou boat. The boat ride over to La Gonave was very exciting. I'd say Becca and I got at least 10 gallons of water splashed on us. We were soaking wet. At first we laughed a lot but then our eyes started burning from the salt.

We got off the boat and a guy named Matt picked us up. Our first impressions of La Gonave was that it looked similar to the rest of Haiti. Later we changed our minds about this. We went to the Weslyan Compound to see everyone and see where we were staying. When we arrived the Extollo guys Avery, his brother, a canadian guy named Randy, & Tom were having a training session with the La Gonave workers on the back porch of Matts house. We went and sat with them for awhile but we were way sleepy so we ended up going into the house and passing out on his couch. When we woke up we decided to walk around. We saw a white guy who we had previosly seen on the porch sitting by a building. We had assumed he was a Californian but were very wrong. He was British. He told us he was from London...in England. lol. Next we all headed off to the worksite. Becca and I were barely hanging on.

Around lunchtime we started to get hungry and thirsty. We didnt want to be a burden to Extollo so we took a walk to see what we could find. This was one of the first times we noticed the difference between La Gonave and the rest of Haiti. We were kinda in the middle of nowhere though. We couldn't find anything to eat or drink. We did however, find a family that had 15 kids! Wowee. We chatted with them for about half an hour then headed back to the worksite. We ate food with the workers then couldnt take it anymore. We bummed a ride back with Avery to the compound when they needed to pick up supplies. We hung out for a bit and chatted with Avery while one of the guys went to get gas. After he left we passed out for 2hours on Matts couch again. We only woke up because they came back from work.

Nothing else memorable happened that day. Writing a blog about a day that was a few days ago is wayy hard.

-AMY