Day 0: The Waiting Game

Ever since 9 pm on Thursday until 3 PM Friday, it’s been a waiting game to get onto the Comfort. I flew from SD to LA to Miami, then finally to Port Au Prince, Haiti. We met up with some people from the Navy at the airport and waited about an hour before we left to wait for the bus, which took about another 30 minutes. When I got to the airport, I asked when the next flight of people was coming in, to which a Navy person responded “fifteen hundred” …lol. We got to the port and waited for about another hour or so for the boat to take us to the Comfort. We ended up getting to the ship around 3 PM, which wasn’t that bad considering some people have been waiting in the heat since 8 AM.

My first impression of Haiti was that it was exactly how I expected it to be lol. It actually looks like a very pretty and cute place, always super sunny outside (except it’s like 125 degrees and extreme humidity -__-) with tons of trees and plants. There were people on the streets living in really broken down wooden shacks and tons of broken down tents grouped together. There were a few people running around barefoot and people really DO carry stuff on baskets on their head!