Tap Taps, Spirits, and a Change in plans...

This is a picture of a rainbow after the storm. We get rain almost every afternoon, but one day we had this beautiful rainbow when the sky cleared. If you look close enough, you can see that it is actually two rainbows!

For the past two days, we've had...driver complications...so we've been taking Tap Taps to get to and from the office. Essentially the Tap Tap is a pick up truck with 2 benches in the back and metal around it. You get one either at the station, or you hail it like a cab. Its like a Manhattan Bus or Subway in the sense that you shove as many people as possible in the space available. Some people are sitting; others are standing and holding on with all of their might! And then, similar to the bus, you let the driver know when you want to get off. Instead of pressing the ding dong strip, you tap on the side of the truck to let them know to pull over and let you off. It is an experience to say the very least!!

Another experience is being called a Loogawoo (I know I spelt that wrong). That is the name of the evil spirit here. The spirit come and takes things or children from the people. They are calling us this because we are white, which means we are likely to be working for some NGO. This is true, we are working for an NGO, but in the past there have been some rogue NGOs that have tried to swindle the people of this country, so we are suspicious.

Finally, we are leaving Gonayiv this afternoon!!! How exciting is that! I am so happy to be moving on to Sen Michel and see something different than the city! Onward...