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[Deutsch unten<\/a>]<\/p>\n 1 November, 12pm<\/em><\/p>\n Saturday Amber, Mary, Kris, James, Mike, myself and Junior decided to take a boat across Jacmel bay to La Baguette, a beach that had been recommended. Kris also invited Flore, a 15-year-old Haitian girl she got to know, to come along on the excursion. However, instead of the white sand we\u2019d been promised we found piles of trash and felt rather disenchanted. Things began to look up, though, when we took the boat around some rocks, and then swam from the boat instead of the beach. The water was so salty, you basically floated without doing anything.<\/p>\n We had the boat drop us off right below Cap Lamandou and joined some of the others there. It wasn\u2019t quite as relaxing as normal, as an American church group had brought some Haitian orphans for a swim, but the kids\u2019 enthusiasm was great fun to see.<\/p>\n The evening was the last one in Haiti for about half of us, so after dinner most of us went to Hotel Florita for a goodbye drink. We were also joined by three nurses Andrea and Sasha had met in St Marc and we met our Creole teacher Fanel there. Saying goodbye sucked, especially because you get so close to people here very quickly, and I\u2019ll be missing Kris, Andrea, Sasha, Min Young, James and Mike a lot – although thanks to Facebook we\u2019ll certainly be in touch.<\/p>\n Sunday morning, after this rotation left for Port au Prince along with Kat, the house was very empty. Amber, Mary and I went with Fanel to a Protestant church\u2019s English and Creole service, which was so packed (pretty much all with Haitians, though) we had to sit on the porch. The singing was good, and there was a pretty nice choir, but the sermon was a bit unfocused and all over the place, which made it feel even longer than it already was. Back home Sierra and myself moved into Amber\u2019s room, which has a nice breeze, and we cleaned up around the house for the new arrivals (very necessary).<\/p>\n The morning had been sweltering hot, possibly the first signs of the upcoming hurricane (which is due to hit sometime this week), but the heat broke a little in the afternoon – still, the pool at Cap felt wonderful and we only got back when the new rotation (8 people) had already arrived. Obviously this made dinner rather more exciting and I enjoyed learning everyone\u2019s names and where they were from. Looking forward to getting to know everyone better, especially since most of them are staying for more than 2 weeks.<\/p>\n