Day 1: Team Restore

The day finally arrived for the first Project Haiti team to embark on their journey to Les Cayes, Haiti. We left Jacksonville at 2:45 am to arrive in Orlando at 5:00 am to check into our flight. Our flight consisted of long waits in security and customs lines from Orlando to Miami and finally arriving in Port Au Prince. Once we arrived, we had to gather in the terminal and find our bags in a huge pile of luggage which was a bit chaotic. We ended up finding everything we checked including our big parcels of meical supplies without any lost baggage! Now to find our driver... We followed the directions we were given by MTI and found Harold right where they said he would be. Harold is an awesome driver, but spoke only creole so it was hard for us to communicate with him. We met up with June and Marvin and began our trek from Port Au Prince to Les Cayes which takes an estimatated time of 4-6 hours. Well, 8 hours later we are finally safely in Les Cayes. There are no traffic laws and people have been protesting by leaving large trucks and busses in the middle of the road, blocking traffic from going through. This happened to us repeatedly until we finally found a way out of Port Au Prince thanks to Harold's expert traffic directing skills. We are staying at June's house and we are having so much fun so far! We are all getting to know each other on such a different level which is amazing. So excited for the rest of our time here and the people who are going to impact our lives forever! Pics to come :) -Ashley