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that's what mees said.

November 2011

4 posts

A lovely video shot by Fontaine of our JRCWP in Haiti. It makes me so wistful — I hope we get to do this again together soon.

The build today felt a lot harder than yesterday. It was hotter, and the tasks we needed to complete were more tedious. We spent most of the morning moving scaffolding in and out and around the houses, and trying to pound nails into brackets with holes that were too small. Someone told me to just focus on moving the nail just a little bit with every swing instead of expecting to do it all in a...

creature discomforts

I had always thought that tarantulas are slow and amble along, but yesterday I found out that they are freaking FAST. There was one waiting for us under a wooden truss, and it shot out of there like it was on speed. The only other slightly abnormal creature we’ve seen so far is a lizard. I prefer him by far. He’s tiny, and I haven’t actually seen him move from the metal bar...

I’m typing out some thoughts so I can remember parts of my experience here. I’m currently on my iPhone, lying on my cot, in the cocoon of my pink mosquito net. It’s sticky hot, and thankfully there’s a fan rotating in our tent pushing some of the warm breeze around. Day zero I guess I shouldn’t have been so surprised, but it took a whole day to get here. There are...