Something new

Since I moved to Haiti there has been much to learn, so many fun things, new things, cultural things, things that didn’t make sense, things that were hilarious, things that were shocking. I have learned all about; cell phone etiquette, toe nail extensions, sand paper foot scrubbers, cat for Christmas, lime juice with milk, proper wardrobe colour coordination, bread soup, why it is not a good idea for single people to consume spicy food, energy drinks and passion fruit juice, that lots of creole words mean more than one thing so you really need to be careful how you use them or you might end up accidentally telling your pastor how good it has been to be intimate with him when all you really meant to say was , “It was nice to meet you”, not all fruit trees bear fruit, even when they flower,  how to cut string with rocks, how to fix a bad car battery connection with a rock, that crazy people in Haiti throw rocks, that under Haiti’s layer of rocks is another couple layers of rock….

Tonight I learned a new useful piece of information. (Please note I am not recommending you try this at home, but it did work for me)  I had something in my eye this evening that I couldn’t seem to get out. I was trying to wash it out with no luck. Kenol came over and said, “Here let me get that out for you.” He then opened my eye with his fingers and in slow motion I watched in horror as he took a deep breathe and then in one quick and forceful breath he poofed the air out  full force into my eyeball! My reaction was of course a panicked, “What in the world are you doing!” His calm response was, “Well, is the thing still in your eye?” I blinked a few times and realized it wasn’t.

Huh…who would have thought.

Peace, love and forceful poofs of air,

Rachel