Creme

I think "ice cream" might be the phrase I can say in the most languages...

Haiti is still grand. My work is going very well. I have spent the past 2.5 work days working exclusively on relationship building and not information gathering, but I must not get impatient. Two of the people I have gotten to know during this time started out reticent and suspicious, and are now eager to help. This is no small feat, and I am trying to remind myself of that, even though I have no new findings to put into my report. Yet. But I do already have about eight pages (single-spaced) of important information I've gathered, and I now have five meetings set up for the rest of this week. So things are picking up.

Unfortunately, I don't feel very comfortable posting much about the work I'm doing. I feel like these relationships are still only tenuously forged, and many of my findings are politically complex. Suffice it to say I am learning a lot, enjoying the work, and excited of what may come of my findings.

A story before I run: Last week a cow in town was being walked to its slaughter in Cap, and apparently spoke to its would-be killers, saying, "I will not die twice." The cow was not killed, is now understood to be some sort of god incarnate, and the town has since flocked to behold this wonder.