allfreetime Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 Also thought this was a thread about the quake. Ironic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnifeHits RS Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 Half of all the Google image searches for Haiti I found were 70 lb. natives standing around tire fires.... Terrible experience, you just paid for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUGR Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 Yeahhh, and if you can give me any travel safety tips for a female in a corrupt place, lemme know hahah. :D You know what this guy always says...? lemme know hahah. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercer Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 Terrible experience, you just paid for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allfreetime Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 You know what this guy always says...? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUGR Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 Wags is on the phone with the her travel agent right now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wags Posted January 13, 2010 Author Share Posted January 13, 2010 Be careful. My friends family lived there in the late 80's early 90's. All he told me he remembered was gunfire on the regular and that his house security guard was murdered in front of his house...RIP. BTW are you going for work or play. I am going there to volunteer and help out. My best friend's dad is a doctor and he runs a non-religious orphanage there. Her dad and a couple of other doctors/nurses are going to do all the medical stuff for people who need it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wags Posted January 13, 2010 Author Share Posted January 13, 2010 Grew up with Haitians and my next door neighbors are a Haitian family. My ex roommate (white boy) went there for a couple of days to pick up his crazy mother and his his granmother who has Alzheimer's cuz they got in to some crazy situation where the bf of the mother was extorting them. some gutter type shit! Some real heavy stuff, i feel bad for my boy. All this to say that i only heard bad things about it. I hope everything works out for you! Take flicks, start a thread. Thanks! I hope everything works out for us too. I will try to take as many pictures as I can. :] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wags Posted January 13, 2010 Author Share Posted January 13, 2010 Strong quake hits Haiti, hospital collapses http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/12/international/i141733S04.DTL&tsp=1 "Everybody is just totally, totally freaked out and shaken," said Henry Bahn, a U.S. Department of Agriculture visiting Haiti. "The sky is just gray with dust." How long are you planning on staying there? I'm planning on staying there for a couple of weeks. yeahhh, It's like a went to go see a movie and then everything went to shit in Haiti. As far as I know, everything is still good to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wags Posted January 13, 2010 Author Share Posted January 13, 2010 Wags is on the phone with the her travel agent right now... hahaha nah, I'm not. I am still going. If anything they need us more and to bring more supplies and stuff. I know this sounds totally gayola, but if i am going down, at least I was doing something selfless. lol whateva so if wags doesn't sign on ever again after Saturday, :[ 12oz rules and everyone take care of themselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HATER. Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 they are harlem shaking in haiti right now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILOTSMYBRAIN Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 I really don't know if I would want to go to a place that was just rocked by a 7.0 quake. Best of luck though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUGR Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 Her dad and a couple of other doctors/nurses are going to do all the medical stuff for people who need it. People there needed help before today...now they will need it more than ever. Brace yourself for some reality that none of us are used to, sure ain't going to be no vacation. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ms.seyer Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 Perfect time to go there right now. Yeeeeah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 ok this is a bizarre fuckin coincidence. you might not want to go dude. prolly fucking mess right about now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STAN51 Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 Griots FTW 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILOTSMYBRAIN Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 Just a quick question.... I've been reading some of the reports coming out of Haiti, and apparently one of their airports were severely damaged. I don't know how many airports you can fly into, but wouldn't this come into play? I would make sure everything is kosher before packing my bags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUGR Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 No "prolly" about it...Haiti is always a mess. Now it is a disaster zone... *edit...wait until more news comes out, you might not even be cleared to travel there depending on the degree of damage. and those griots look tasty...whatever they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazztechno Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 nah, niggas be eatin' mud son! Yolen Jeunky, 45, collects dried "mud cookies" to sell in the shantytown of Cité Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on November 29, 2007. Rising food prices have forced poor Haitians to depend on the cookies—a mixture of salt, vegetable shortening, and mud—for sustenance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUGR Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 "Our church has 5 missionaries from our church that just arrived in Haiti when the earthquake hit. One of the missionaries is my mother in law and the other is my father in law. We are corresponding via text but they are seeing dead bodies in the street. They are at the missions clinic in Port-au-Prince now helping many of the injured. -Brian Cory Gateway Free Will Baptist Church" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnifeHits RS Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STAN51 Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 No "prolly" about it...Haiti is always a mess. Now it is a disaster zone... *edit...wait until more news comes out, you might not even be cleared to travel there depending on the degree of damage. and those griots look tasty...whatever they are. Griots are fried pork shoulders with rice and beans and it comes with plantain and sauces. Shit is mad good son! I once spent x mas with a Haitian family, the food was AMAZING! Ti zozo santi mon cher! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUGR Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 Welcome to the Newest Haitian Social Network! http://www.kreyoltube.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MayorMeanBeans Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 youre only going for a couple weeks? i've worked professionally in a bunch of different shit holes, india is probably in a similar category as haiti except its safe and not full of crime. my only advice would be to anticipate what i like to call 'sensory overload'. when you're in an unfamiliar place, your body gets unnerved and your senses work harder than they normally do. You look more, you smell more, you hear more, etc. Do you know creole/will you ahve guides? Considering that your senses will set on what will essentially be katrina but waaaaay worse, don't step off the plane thinking your going to save the world thrice over, make sure you give yourself time to sleep, eat and process the fuckery you just saw. otherwise i have a feeling you'll have a breakdown the second or third day, esp. if you haven't been in those types of conditions before. forgive me if i'm wrong, but you seem like the "i feel guilty i have it so good so im going to go volunteer for 3 weeks, make a difference and assuage my conscience" type. if thats the case, get over yourself asap. you're gonna get there, be like "wow this is fucked up, so not what im used to blah blah blah" when for 99 percent of haitians, that is normal. sorry if i sound like an asshole, but if you really wanted to make a difference your 'delegation'/'mission' coulda given your plane fare/hotel fare etc. to a haitian and that essentially would have been a 4 to 6 month salary. /end rant. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wags Posted January 13, 2010 Author Share Posted January 13, 2010 thanks for the advice. i feel no guilt, they doctors and nurses needed all the help they could get so they asked us to go. i am also going to be applying for med school soon, so this is a pretty interesting introduction besides an internship. and get off my nuts about what I should and shouldn't do to help. i have nothing to get over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IHATEU Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 turn this into a photo thread when you get there... i want to see Haitian feet sticking out from a slab of concrete or some shit... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheoHuxtable.. Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wags Posted January 13, 2010 Author Share Posted January 13, 2010 turn this into a photo thread when you get there... i want to see Haitian feet sticking out from a slab of concrete or some shit... will do :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishCarBombs Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 best of luck out there, dont die. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watson Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 really.. how is anyone not amazed at the coincidence this thread is?? shit is epic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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