Team Rehab Day 1

Day 1. Team Rehab met to leave Jacksonville at 2:45 am to begin the drive to the Orlando Airport.  We had a challenging check-in experience with the American Airlines Representative. The representative had us checking all of our backpacks and questioned everything while we reorganize our bags and DME to donate. Then we made it to Miami just in time to make our connecting flight to Haiti. In Haiti we arrived safely with all bags and DME in tow. We cleared customs and then came the challenge of finding our MTI driver. We were approached by 6-8 men who were aggressive and highly motivated to to to convince us that they were all our drivers. However,  no one had the key features we were told to look for in our driver. June came to the rescue with one phone call and as it turned out the men were who were harassing  us were actually our drivers along.  We packed up the van with Harold and Kowki for the 6 hour drive to Les Cayes.  Soon we all warmed up to each other when our trip quickly began by playing chicken with oncoming traffic and jumping the median:) The car ride was filled with  delays for Haitian Flag Day parades, Creole lessons with Kowki, Harold's countless games of chicken with oncoming traffic, Harold's horn blowing to the beat of bob marley, and car speeds fluctuating between 0-91 mph:)  We met up with June in Les Cayes and are staying at Seed agricultural organization until Tuesday.  We had a delicious authentic meal prepared for us upon arrival at Seed.  We were exhausted but had enough energy to put up mosquito nets, take cold yet refreshing showers, and laugh not stop while debriefing our first day.