a short video from living in Haiti

Last weekend I had a little fun messing around with iMovie and created a short video of our time spent living in Haiti. During our time there, we occasionally filmed moments and interactions for the sake of memory, but never had the intention of actually making anything of them. The filming is shaky and the quality is low, but it's fun to look back and remember bits and pieces of what made up our days there.

You can click this link to view the 5 minute video, but don't forget to make it full screen and turn up your volume so that you can get the full experience ;)

xo

children of haiti

Below are a few pictures and some brief information about our recent site-visit to Anse-a-Pitres, if you'd like to see...

becoming secret agents

We have a friend from church who works for the UN and recently was relocated to Port-au-Prince after being near Cap-Haitian for the last two years. Yesterday, he took us on a tour of the base and we got to see their camp and living quarters, some of the offices, and eat lunch in a cafeteria with many UN officers from countries like Uruguay, Argentina, Canada, France, Bolivia, and even the good ol' USA.

We had to wear these name tags for security, which made me feel like someone important on a secret mission.

This officer drove us around in a big UN Police vehicle. We didn't take any pictures of the base for security reasons, but we had to sneak this one of our driver because he was dressed so fancy ;)

I felt like Jessica Chastain in the movie, "Zero Dark Thirty," walking around the dry, dusty landscape with my sunglasses and security tags. 

Through all of Andrew's political and historical research the last several years, we find there are many mixed and intense opinions about the presence of the UN in Haiti. It was exciting to be on the "other" side for a few hours. So maybe we weren't really "secret agents," but now we have a fuller picture of a world that is so mysterious some.