Storm!

My first storm of the trip has touched down right before NFL kickoff! Wow, thunder, lightning, hard rain. Some of the house is leaking and letting in some water that is building up from outside. Luckily we got home about 15 minutes before it started. Nancy, Ben and I were standing on the front balcony and I point to the left where there was a nasty looking cloud coming our way. Five minutes later, we were the cloud. Super fun and exciting. Thank goodness we are not on the road right now as it is completely stopped. Some of the staff stayed at the office and I do not know when they will be home.

As for the rest of the day, I wrapped up a couple of projects I was given for the week. One was completing flash cards with images and words in Creole on them to help with a charrette tomorrow at the Santo Community Project. Attached is one example you all might get a kick out of. This is an example of what goes in a toilet, pretty straight forward, eh? We are explaining the difference between toilet options via the imagery, so that was fun. Plus more learning on Illustrator.

Then I had to trace multiple maps for the Villa Rosa charrette, which we were doing in the afternoon. Darren, Rickie, Clio and I went to this community church to do the meeting, being told there was going to be around 40-50 people. We got there and only a few people were there for it. We gave it about an hour and only a few more trickled in, so we had to reschedule it for next week. Bummer. So I just helped with little projects around the office until it was time to come home for the storm.


Yesterday was a bunch of the same. Just working on my laptop doing the projects I finished today. I went to print some of the cards at the end of the day and the damn printer was not liking the new cyan ink cartridge I put in it. So I spent twenty minutes trying to get it to work, hot, tired and sweaty. One of the Haitian girls that works in the office basically touched the printer and it decided to start working (of course), but not before me trying to back into my chair, missing it, and shooting the chair across the room and falling on my ass. Nice way to end the day, six people asking if you are all right...printer worked, day is done, and Darren comes over and hands me a beer. Maybe one of the best moments of my life. Ah! Came home and we all test piloted the charrette we are going to have tomorrow.
So, I have surpassed the two week mark now, which is pretty cool. Time is flying here, still no troubles regarding health or happiness, just miss all you guys back home. Oh, and I joined a last minute pick'em football league Phil Hansing invited me to, so I get to have some fun on Sundays with all the games that don't regard the Chargers.
More next time, enjoy the Packers/Saints game. Hope NBC streams it online. Can't wait.

Cheers!