The lovely green tent to the left is the tent Sarah brought with her. I now have a minor obsession with owning a NICE tent like this LL Bean one I lived in for two weeks. I am saving up some money and at the end of the summer when the tents go on sale, I plan to buy one. Hopefully I will be sleeping better by then, despite the fact that I no longer have a tent-mate and a mosquito net over me. I really did love my time in this tent. Home sweet home!
This is me after I first tasted the water at camp. There were large amounts of chlorine added to the water. It was warm and tasted like pool water. My lips burned after drinking it. Refreshing eh? Sarah was lucky to catch this moment on camera... I did adjust however!
We were so incredibly fortunate to have laundry service at camp. I would hand these beautiful women my clothes in the morning and they would return them to me at night. I often had a nice little pile of clothes waiting for me on my sleeping back in the evening. They worked so hard. They carried water from the sinks in huge tubs to their washing area. They used metal washboards and scrubbed everything with bleach. I can't believe how lucky I was to have this service while I was there!
The clothes dried quickly in the hot, hot weather!
Sarah and I lucked out because we inherited these two lovely buckets from a guy who left the day after we arrived. Buckets are a highly coveted commodity at camp. We used them to shower when the makeshift showers weren't working. It was actually quite refreshing to have the bucket dumped on you. My co-worker Kellie insisted I take rainboots to Haiti and I was so grateful for those pink boots when the rains hit at night. I left them with the Haitian nurses and I hope they are lasting well!
These are the tarp showers that were used with the buckets. We were lucky enough to not have to use these often because some very smart people set up a shower system with wooden doors and everything! But the view from these showers was nice- it overlooked the mountains.
This is the cafeteria. Meals were served twice a day. Breakfast was served around 9am- about 2 hours after work started. Lunch was served somewhere around 2:30. There was also "dinner" which consisted of warm milk- I never participated in this meal. The people who worked here were so friendly and if you gave them an extra smile you could usually get a few extra fried potatoes on the special days where we had them.
Soda was a welcome relief for most of the workers here. I had not had any soda for 12 years until coming here. It was so hot and that was the only option of a cool drink so I gave in an had a sip from time to time. I remembered why I didn't like soda in the first place and I am back to no soda ever. But it was nice to have a refreshing drink in the heat!
A typical dinner... rice, bean, and some sort of vegetable/sardine/tuna mix on top... It helped if you put tabasco sauce on it...
Breakfast: A rice meal that was supposed to have lots of vitamins and protein.
The other thing we had for breakfast: a course cornmeal mix with a few shredded carrots in it. It congealed as it got cool. Again, hot sauce helped. All in all though, I felt very lucky to have as good as food as we did.
My dear friend! She would ask me every day if I had eaten and give me heaping platefuls of food. I always had to tell her to stop piling the food on. She is a sweet girl and never ceased to have a smile. I miss her!
Life was good at the camp. I really miss being there. It was so nice to focus on the basics of life rather than be caught up with so many distractions like I am now that I am back. I think I would have been ready to go back the day after I got home as long as I could have had a shower, a good night's sleep with a pillow (I didn't have one the whole two weeks), a salad, fruit, and a guacamole burger. Yep I am already itching to get back there!
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