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Sunday, September 26, 2010

Second day in Haiti

During my time in Haiti i spent most of my time at the Pediatric center where the injured kids lived while getting treatment. I helped out by giving kids medicine, doing physical therapy with them, and also by just hanging out and playing with the kids. They loved when you played soccer or catch with them. This made them really happy. It was so amazing to see everyone smiling after all that they have been through. For communication I learned a little bit of Creol. For example i learned how to say hi, how are you. And i also learned how to say my name is Jacquelyn and other small sayings. In addition to learning some Creol, there was a translator who was there. There was about twenty kids living in the pediatric center, but during the day other kids sometimes went to the Pediatric center to hang out. One of the kids who I spent most of my time with was named Jackie. His head got crushed by a rock during the Earthquake so he had to wear a helmet all the time. He was staying at the pediatric center until he was sent to the United States to get his skull repaired. It was so sad to hear some of the stories of what happened to these kids, but I was glad to see that they were so happy and friendly.

4 comments:

  1. The travel stuff is interesting, but think about finding out about current stuff. What's going on right now? This would enable you to do some on-going research (rather than recording things you already know about). The trip was (as I mentioned) tremendously cool. Now: see if you can build upon it and focus on learning new stuff.

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  2. yea i agree. you should defiantly continue talking about when you were there but also try to find out whats going on now because haiti is barley in the news anymore and it would be cool to hear whats going on now.

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  3. I think if you told more specific and personal stories about each of the kids I would be very interested.

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  4. I want to travel there,

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