{"id":8527,"date":"2012-09-01T01:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8527"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:56","slug":"made-it-to-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8527","title":{"rendered":"Made it to Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I arrived in Haiti yesterday around noon after 4 hours in\nthe air and a short layover in the Bahamas to refuel.\u00a0 About two thirds of the cargo I brought for\nCowman\u2019s kindergarten arrived with me \u2013 hopefully the rest will be on next\nTuesday\u2019s flight.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

Unfortunately, between adjusting to the heat and fighting a\nsinus infection, I am hoping at most to post some pictures with some captions\nbefore I head off to bed (and\/or the power goes off).<\/p>\n\n\n

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I flew this time with Missionary Flights International out of Fort Pierce, FL.\u00a0\u00a0A top-notch organization – and very helpful.\u00a0 I got to sit next to Kate Z., who teaches 1st and 2nd grade at Cowman.\u00a0 She tells me this is a DC-3.\u00a0 She knows more about airplanes than I do.\n\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Here's the inside – 18 passengers and two pilots and a bunch of cargo.\u00a0 Met a Haitian pastor returning home with his family after spending 4 years in Pensacola earning his Master of Divinity and also met a family of six from Orange City, Iowa moving down to live and work at a Haitian\u00a0orphanage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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This is where Melissa will eventually be teaching Kindergarten.\u00a0 This was before all the furniture was set up – I will try to take better pics of the space next week.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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The Bundys are being kind enough to let me share in their family meals while I am here.\u00a0 They are a sweet family.\u00a0 Here, their youngest, Christina, opens a letter sent to her by my Princess in Indiana.\u00a0 The envelope was full of drawings of butterflies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Jake Bundy showed me how he climbs a coconut tree…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Then I showed him how I climb a coconut tree…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Today I was included in the morning teacher meeting as everyone prepares for school to start on Monday.\u00a0 Then I got to work on what will ultimately be my classroom, God willing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Here's how it looked at the end of the day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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One last couple of pics before heading to bed.\u00a0 This is one of my students, Jacob and he is a soccer fanatic.\u00a0 Two goals have been constructed at the end of the school yard, but there are no nets.\u00a0 I post this picture because I want my oldest son, Dats, to see this – he's my soccer player.\u00a0 I thought maybe Dats would be willing to work with me to figure out a way to get some nets down to Cowman at Christmas time. It's kinda important for the sake of the game because on one end, right behind the goal, is this:<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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These cacti have already claimed the lives of more than one soccer ball.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I arrived in Haiti yesterday around noon after 4 hours in the air and a short layover in the Bahamas to refuel.\u00a0 About two thirds of the cargo I brought for Cowman\u2019s kindergarten arrived with me \u2013 hopefully the rest will be on next Tuesday\u2019s flight.\u00a0 Unfortunately, between adjusting to the heat and fighting a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8539,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527\/revisions\/8539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}