What do I do when I'm not in the field? Well, here's what I did yesterday:
Morning: grocery shopping at the grocery store that I can walk to from my hotel. I spent $9.50 on a travel-sized bottle of contact solution, $6 on a box of five (small) granola bars, and $13.50 on a 6 oz. bag of baby spinach (and it's not even organic). At least my guesthouse cook told me that the $2 I spent on a gigantic avocado seemed reasonable.
Afternoon: lounging (and working) by the pool at the newly re-opened El Rancho Hotel that had been destroyed in the earthquake. Pros: lovely landscaping, nice pool, delicious salad, and comfy lounge chairs. Cons: slow wifi, loud dance music ALL DAY, and the feeling that I'm in a weird rich-person bubble that 99% of Haitians have never even seen.
Evening: dinner at the Quartier Latin, another foreigner bubble where they serve fresh pasta and French wine, and last night's location for the week-long international jazz festival happening in Port-au-Prince. Even though it is two blocks from our hotel, we had a private driver take us there and bring us back, "just to be safe."
So I'm not exactly roughing it.
Morning: grocery shopping at the grocery store that I can walk to from my hotel. I spent $9.50 on a travel-sized bottle of contact solution, $6 on a box of five (small) granola bars, and $13.50 on a 6 oz. bag of baby spinach (and it's not even organic). At least my guesthouse cook told me that the $2 I spent on a gigantic avocado seemed reasonable.
Afternoon: lounging (and working) by the pool at the newly re-opened El Rancho Hotel that had been destroyed in the earthquake. Pros: lovely landscaping, nice pool, delicious salad, and comfy lounge chairs. Cons: slow wifi, loud dance music ALL DAY, and the feeling that I'm in a weird rich-person bubble that 99% of Haitians have never even seen.
Evening: dinner at the Quartier Latin, another foreigner bubble where they serve fresh pasta and French wine, and last night's location for the week-long international jazz festival happening in Port-au-Prince. Even though it is two blocks from our hotel, we had a private driver take us there and bring us back, "just to be safe."
So I'm not exactly roughing it.
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