Every day in Haiti has brought so many new experiences. Today I was able to go to collect supplies at ‘Big Pauls’. ‘Big Paul’ was a 34 year old man who was a photographer prior to setting up a base house in Haiti. He heard about the earthquake and felt compelled to help the people of Haiti. He couldn’t get a ticket into the country so he took a flight into the Dominican Republic and then took a bus over to Haiti. He rented out a huge house that a family lived in prior to the earthquake. The family is currently living in front of the house in a tent because they’re afraid the house will collapse on them in another quake. Big Paul visits warehouses and transports pallet donations of medical supplies, food, clothing…. Back to his house. He then contacts organizations (like PID, Partners in Health….) and passes all of the supplies on to them. We were able to obtain a Tap-tap load and truck load of free medical supplies. It took about an hour for the team to unload the Tap-tap and put the medical supplies away.
After we finished unloading the medical supplies we took a Tap-tap to a Sugar Cane Museum. The guide could only speak in Creole. Our translator did a good job with the help of the rest of the team trying to determine what he was telling us. Michael convinced the driver to take us to get souvenirs. We drove to a beautiful souvenir site, we pulled over and all unloaded and discovered that ‘souvenir’ in creole also means cemetery. We took a great photo outside the cemetery and then made a quick departure before the beginning of a funeral. Needless to say there were no souvenirs purchased! LOL 
