{"id":354,"date":"2010-10-26T17:38:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T15:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/26\/weekend-2\/"},"modified":"2017-09-21T16:57:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T16:57:13","slug":"weekend-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/26\/weekend-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.volunteerjournals.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/haiti_flag.jpg\" width=\"16\" height=\"11\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[Deutsch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volunteerjournals.org#german\">unten<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><em>26 October, 6.30am<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I had a quiet weekend because of stomach troubles. Saturday I chilled at the house, went online and skyped with my brother and then got a pedicure with Stien, which was fun (also, cheap &#8211; only 150 gourdes, not even 5 USD). Most of the others, on the other hand, took motos up into the mountains and went paragliding with a French guy. I\u2019ve wanted to go paragliding for years, so I\u2019m hoping for a repeat another weekend. Saturday ended with an unexpected shower: During dinner at Rendezvous it started to pour. All Haitians were standing somewhere dry, wating for it to be over and laughing at us thoroughly wet white people, making our way home through rivers of garbage water. <\/p>\n<p>Sunday I spent in a similar quiet fashion, except that in the afternoon I joined some of the others at Cap, the hotel where we can enjoy the pool and internet. Another group took motos to a beach outside of Jacmel &#8211; something else I plan to do sometime. (I keep having to remind myself that my time here has barely started and that there will be plenty of opportunities.)<\/p>\n<p>In the course of Sunday it was decided that our three nurses would head up to Port au Prince early Monday morning, to join NGO \u2018Grassroots\u2019 and help with the Cholera outbreak in St. Marc, so we lost a third of our rotation, which feels strange. The other two-weekers have also started talking about their plans after Jacmel, so this second week already feels as if something is coming to an end.<\/p>\n<p>Before this, however, there will be a party: Kat and Jess are hosting an <em>Eat So They Can<\/em> event on Wednesday evening, raising funds for Haiti by having party guests donate. This is a global campaign run by GVN that is now in its third year, and the goal this year is to raise USD 500\u2019000. For obvious reasons we won\u2019t be able to raise a whole lot of money here in Jacmel &#8211; so if you want to help, you can do so on <a href=\"http:\/\/eatsotheycan.org\/host\/kathryn-oconnor\" target=\"new\">Kat\u2019s host page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\n<a name=\"german\"><\/a><em>26. Oktober, 6.30 Uhr<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mein Wochenende war ruhig, da ich leider immer noch Magenprobleme habe. Am Samstag las ich im Haus, ging online and telefonierte per Skype mit meinem Bruder, und anschliessend g\u00f6nnten Stien und ich uns eine Pedik\u00fcre, was Spass machte (und billig war &#8211; nur 150 Gourdes, was nicht einmal 5 USD sind). Die meisten anderen fuhren per Moto in die Berge zum Paragliden mit einem Franzosen. Ich will schon seit Jahren einmal paragliden, weshalb ich hoffe, an einem anderen Wochenende eine Chance daf\u00fcr zu kriegen. Samstag abend endete mit einer unerwarteten Dusche: Beim Abendessen im Rendezvous fing es an zu sch\u00fctten. Die Haitianer standen alle im Trockenen, warteten auf das Ende des Regens und am\u00fcsierten sich k\u00f6niglich \u00fcber uns klitschnasse Weisse, die durch das Dreckwasser nach Hause wateten.<\/p>\n<p>Sonntag liess ich es \u00e4hnlich ruhig angehen, nur dass ich den Nachmittag mit ein paar anderen im Cap verbrachte, dem Hotel, wo wir Pool und Internet geniessen k\u00f6nnen. Eine andere Gruppe fuhr mit Motos an einen Strand ausserhalb von Jacmel &#8211; noch etwas, dass ich auch noch zu tun hoffe. (Ich muss mich immer wieder dran erinnern, dass meine Zeit hier erst gerade begonnen hat und ich noch viele Gelegenheiten haben werde.) <\/p>\n<p>Im Verlauf des Sonntags wurde auch entschieden, dass unsere drei Krankenschwestern am Montag morgen nach Port au Prince fahren w\u00fcrden, um die NRO \u2018Grassroots\u2019 beim Ausbruch der Cholera in St. Marc zu unterst\u00fctzen. Wir verloren also ein Drittel der Leute dieser Rotation, und die anderen Freiwilligen, die f\u00fcr zwei Wochen hier sind, sprechen auch schon von ihren Pl\u00e4nen nach Jacmel, weshalb sich diese zweite Woche bereits wie ein Ende anf\u00fchlt. <\/p>\n<p>Davor gibt es aber erst mal eine Party: Kat und Jess veranstalten einen <em>Eat So They Can<\/em> (\u201cEsst, damit sie essen k\u00f6nnen\u201d)-Anlass, um Spenden f\u00fcr Haiti zu sammeln. Dies ist eine globale Kampagne von GVN, die es seit drei Jahren gibt, und dieses Jahr ist das Ziel, USD 500\u2019000 zu sammeln. Offensichtlich werden wir hier in Jacmel nicht sehr viel Geld sammeln k\u00f6nnen &#8211; falls ihr also helfen wollt, k\u00f6nnt ihr das auf <a href=\"http:\/\/eatsotheycan.org\/host\/kathryn-oconnor\" target=\"new\">Kats Party-Seite<\/a> (auf Englisch).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Deutsch unten] 26 October, 6.30am I had a quiet weekend because of stomach troubles. Saturday I chilled at the house, went online and skyped with my brother and then got a pedicure with Stien, which was fun (also, cheap &#8211; only 150 gourdes, not even 5 USD). Most of the others, on the other hand, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/26\/weekend-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-haiti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}