May 15th, 2010 Haiti Blog: My body is falling apart. I feel like my mind is next.

As you know, since I have been here I have gone from injury to injury. I never get hurt at home. It's a whole new world here. You geta cut at home, and you can just wait a few days and it'll scab up and just go away. Not here. If you have a cut, you better fix and clean that shit twice a day. I ended up with this horrible infection that will most likely last until it's time for me to go home. It's tearing me apart inside. I try not to let it, but I can see it affect my friendships here. I find myself becomming one of the people I despise. This is one of the most intense environements I have ever found myself in. Mntally and physically. If it weren't for one of my friends here having my back the entire time, I never would have made it through this journey. I have nine more days left and I really want to try to make the absolute best of them. Tuesday is National flag day here and we have off. Their will be a giant parade and such so that should be a really good time. We have a half day today because we're having a barbeque in the afternoon with the locals.

I have just felt like such a letdown the past few days because I havent been able to do much off the base, but I have tried to do anything I could for the base. They made me one of the base managers, which means I am responsible for pretty much everything that happens here, including making sure people have rides to and from work and greeting all the new people who come in and giving them a house tour and making sure they undrstand all the rules. Marc, the ruler of our kingdom tries to tell me that what we do on the base is just as important, if not more than what we do outside the base. Because if our base wasn't running properly, than nothing on the outside would be running at all. But thats just like when you tell someone who thinks they are ugly that they are pretty. You could tell them a million times, but they just need to actually believe it themselves before it means anything to them.

I gotta run I have to escort someone out into the market to grab some items for the base I want to write more about whats goin on inside of the camp so I will be updating this afternoon as well

Love and miss you all

LOVE

Dan