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This will be a short blog, as both Heather and I have fallen quite ill. I will apologize in advance, as my thoughts are totally scrambled. I have not eaten in 35 hours, but just ordered some food, as I feel most of my symptoms have past. Unfortunately for Heather, she is about 18 hours behind me. I pulled myself up by the guilt and responsibility to these people, and went to the UN again today. After 8 hours, we managed to get a Mack truck filled with 188 boxes of Military RTF (ready to eat food packages). I am not sure yet how to divide these up, so we will need to take time to sort that out. I am grateful we have this food, as we would have ran out of money next week if we hadn't. Cajuste and I again dealt with the disorganization of the compound at the Industrial park, but this time I was even more sleep deprived, sicker than I have been in a long time and it happened to be the hottest day in Haiti yet. I almost cried twice today out of pure exhaustion and frustration. Until one man looked into my eyes and could see I was about to cry, he put me on the back of his motorcycle and drove me around the facility until we found who I needed. Without him, I could still be wandering around the compound clueless. We hired 3 men to help us offload the truck, and I truly pulled some energy out of nowhere to do this. I was so relieved to return to the hotel for a shower. Heather was starting to feel better, but quickly took a turn for the worse. The waves are awful. I met again with the Al Jazeera crew, and they are going to do a piece on our NGO. They have scheduled a day (friday) to follow us into the camp sites and video our work. Their entire staff has been nothing short of wonderful to us, always offering support and medication. I am so honored they have taken an interest in our work. Very exciting things to come.... thats it for now! Oh, and I do apologize there has been no photos yet, we are still working on uploading them. I have found that NOTHING is easy here....
Feb 22, 2010

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