A Fool In Haiti

I love this guy’s smile!

I’m delighted Creole sounds very familiar (at this basic level) to my inner French sensibilities

I was interviewed on local station Radio Reverb about my journey over to Haiti. I previously posted the link to the station’s blog entry about the show, but here is the audio – It’s unedited so a little “oo errr ummm” but hopefully still worth listening to.

http://reverber8.podomatic.com/entry/2010-03-03T06_22_54-08_00

Last week I was interviewed on Brighton radio station, Radio Reverb about what is happening in Haiti and my reasons for going over… The interview went for about an hour and we covered a wide range of topics… The interviewer, Liz Elen has written up the interview, along with her own research…

See the write-up of that interview here.

Eek! My Virgin Atlantic flight has a luggage restriction of “one bag” weighing a maximum of 23 kilograms (see their baggage policy).

According to that chart, it costs £32 for every extra bag I take if I book online before I fly out. I guess I’ll just take as much as I can – but at £32 it is certainly affordable to take a number of blankets, toys, arts and materials, medicines I hadn’t previously considered. If you want something taken over, please get it to me ASAP and consider contributing towards the Extra Baggage Charge of £32…

I’m going to write to them now and ask for Extra Baggage Charge to be lifted as it’s all going towards charitable purposes. I’ll let you know what they say

Hello!

This is the first post on my new blog as I get ready to head out to Jacmel, Haiti on March 8th and help out in any way I can. I’ll probably write quite a lot over the six weeks or so but I’ll leave this entry short as it’s gone 4am. Anyway, consider this post to be the official launch of my AFoolInHaiti blog site

If you know anyone who is keeping a close eye on events in Haiti, please point them towards this site.

Thanks!