Bonjour!
, This is Cody and I’m updating my web page. I’m sorry for the lateness of
my entry. Today I got up at 4:00 am and left for airport at 5:00 but my flight
left for Haiti at 11:30. On the way to JFK airport I was car sick for the whole
ride up. At the customs check point. The metal detector for no apparent reason
kept beeping me. When we got to Port-au-prince I stepped of the cold plane to a
90 degrees island. On the car drive to Les Cayes It was so hot in the car that
we drove with the car doors open, and guess what. I got to sit by the door! We
went over the mountains with the car and there were all these crazy drivers and
huge potholes all over the road. We stopped to eat our diner that we had packed
and it tasted great, I also bought some sugar cane and it was so re-energizing
and pure sugar. When we got half way up the mountain there were all these dogs
the size of rats or smaller and they kept chasing us and barking. As I mentioned
before there were crazy drivers and the side affect was that we saw a person
that got ran over. As we neared Les Cayes we passed Lots of crystal clear
beaches with nothing wrong with them. The entrance to Les Cayes was amazing; it
was light up fully and on top there was a huge 500 representing the 500 years
Les Cayes has been around. Tune in tomorrow for another update.
Tuesday
How
is it up there? It is still 90 degrees down here. Today we had the best oatmeal
I have ever had. It had real cinnamon in it and also it had star anise in it
which is my dads' favorite herb thing. We went around town today and looked
around and I had some sugar cane! Sugar cane looks like wood and fells wet, but
the way you eat it is you bite off a piece and chew it. The texture is like wood
but when you chew it a high concentrate of sugar juice comes pouring out. When
the stuff in your mouth has no flavor left you just spit it out. Today I made
friends with our hosts’ 3-year-old son Jonathan. As we got later into the day
a humongous rainstorm began to move in and the temperature began to drop
dramatically and the wind speed started to pick up. For lunch we had macaroni
& cheese with soda. Do you guys no how you have plastic bottles for soda?
Well down here it comes in half liter bottles and the soda tastes so much
better. When I went to bed it was raining cats and dogs so I slept with
earplugs. See you in a week.
Wednesday
Ughhh!
Today I got up to a still raining day and found out that I was sleep talking.
All the showers were taken up so I decided to take a shower in the rain on the
balcony with my swimsuit on. But my dad decided he would be funny and snapped
some pictures and put them on the website so now I’m really angry with him.
For breakfast we had omelets with ham and cheese and oranges as a side dish. But
I found out that the oranges that come from Florida are really dyed that and
there really lime green.
Thursday
Today
I had the really good oatmeal again and it tasted even better than it did
before. I also had the (green) oranges, which is an oxymoron, and I had
pineapples. I made friends with our host’s son Jonathan who has more energy
each day. Today he got me up early and made me play piggyback and wheelbarrow
for an hour straight non-stop. I have a fan that I use to cool down and Jon
became fascinated with it and used that for about 20 minutes. Jon has two really
small puppies that are about 5-8 inches long and about 5 inches tall but they
had no names so I named one of them scrappy and I still have yet to name the
other one. This street vendor came by our house and was selling machetes so we
bought 2 of them, one for me and another for my brother. The blades are 22’’
log and the handle is about 4 inches long.
It was really hot that night so I slept on top of the covers.
Friday
When I woke up this
morning I had about 60 bug bites on my limbs but my right arm alone had about 52
of them. When I got up I looked at my machete. This morning I forgot that I had
devotions and I was hoping that he wouldn’t make me do them but He did. I
didn’t want to do this and I was fighting with my self to do it but I was
forced to do it. For breakfast we had eggs with pineapple’s, bananas, and
rolls. At the church
a demonized girl bit an usher
and fought with him. In the afternoon she threw a full juice bottle at me
and it it exploded on the wall. I finished up my homework and played with these
kids Ezekiel, James and Lubno once back at home.
Saturday
Beach
day! Today is going to be great today we are going to Gelee beach. We had the
oatmeal again today and it was piping hot! We went to the beach at 2:00 p.m. and
the water was great. It was turquoise and clear. we had coconuts that that the
beach dealers had cut for us. The coconut milk was disgusting and the insides
were like egg whites. After we came back we were wiped out and slept for a
couple hours after that we went to church to worship like we do on Saturdays and
I was so tired I almost fell asleep.
Sunday
Today I got up really late and almost slept through to breakfast For break fast we had pineapple, bananas, rolls and eggs. I had really tart lemonade that almost make me lose my voice. It was so hot in church that I almost had a heat stroke until they bought out some fans to cool us down. I went to church with my friends Ezekiel, James and their sister. When I got home I caught two geckos and one skink.
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