Haitian boys loved getting their picture taking. They often posed in a serious way. I had a digital camera at the time and showed them the picture after.
I'm washing dishes here on my porch. I had the neighbor kids get water for me and I washed with a soap powder that I used for washing clothes, dishes and the house.
Out my second story window, you can see my latrine (orange door) and kitchen straight ahead and shower to the left. Some of the year, there was a water basin, but I treated the water with bleach because there was algae and mosquitoes.
I translated for a visiting vet in Haiti. They spayed a dog right in front of us while the local vet students watched. I learned a lot of vocabulary that day.
This picture was taken after a year of service, in June of 2004, when I went back to my training site in the community of Koujol, not far from Archaie, Haiti, to visit my host family. The little girl on the right, Kenya, was born during my 3...