Week Two - Exploring Port-Au-Prince

Hello again, everybody!

I figured I could take some time off from channel 32's broadcast of Spiderman dubbed in french to upload some of the pictures I took from the drive out to church today. With all the bouncing-out-of-my-seat action going on, it was a little bit difficult to take "good" pictures, but I tried my best and got some fairly decent ones. As a brief overview - most of the pictures I took were of either heavily damaged buildings or particularly striking places. I would say that, by themselves, these pictures don't correctly represent the whole of the Port-Au-Prince landscape; they are merely meant to give an idea of how much damage still remains.

I have an inkling that George is a practitioner of voodoo. It's very hard to get a picture of him better than this bigfoot-esque silhouette seen here.

Left to Right - Jhonny, Wadelet, Somebody who we picked up on the side of the road, and Clegie.

Porportte and Makenson just before we left. Haha, Porportte decided to go with the serious face on this one. He doesn't usually look that angry.

Here's everybody in the bus on the way out. You can see Makenson and Elysee up there in front, I'm not sure who's giving the thumbs-up in the background. Photo was courtesy of Jhonny.

This is just down the road from where we are, across the street from the tent city I've pictured below. There's a pile of gravel that I just missed to the left of the house (which I'm assuming once made up part of the house) where, just the other day, a couple of goats were making a space to lie down. In a very bizarre sort of way, it reminded me of the Billy Goat exhibit at Brookfield Zoo.

The best picture I could get of the aforementioned tent city. Just out of the shot and to the left is the spot where we dumped our trash last Thursday.

Close to the same tent city, this appears to be a dried up river bed that has since been almost completely filled with trash.

And that's all I have for now! I'll try to upload more pictures after my next venture out through Port-Au-Prince. I'll also be posting an update either tomorrow or Tuesday. For now, it's time to watch some copa americana!