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| 4 weeks old. |
Rather than being thrown into the fiery furnace like Meshach,
Shadrach, and Abednego, our month-old orphan kittens Mesay, Sharky, and Abu survived
their first hurricane safe in the third floor guest house.
Hurricane Sandy hit Jamaica earlier this
week, and here in Cayes Haiti we have had heavy rain and winds for three
straight days.
I haven’t left the
building since Monday (today is Friday), but I heard that roads were flooded
and power was out in town.
I was to take
my two classes to the botanical garden this week.
Tuesday morning as it became apparent that
the rain would not stop, that got changed to staying in and watching a movie
(Medicine Man) during class.
It wasn’t until
later in the day on Tuesday that we realized this was a major tropical storm
and everyone needed to stay home.
But four
ecology students showed up yesterday!
So
we huddled around my netbook and watched the 1992 movie starring Sean Connery
as a researcher on the brink of discovering the cure for cancer in a rain
forest about to get bulldozed for a logging road.
A couple Haitians that I don’t really know texted me to see
if I was ok during the storm. One even
asked if I was scared! Which put into
perspective how they must be viewing the storm verses how we are, all safe in
our concrete building. Watching movies,
making pizza, snuggling the luckiest kittens in Haiti.
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| My favorite, Mesay, named after her mom Day-o. |
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| At the pizza restaurant with Uncle Earl - 3 weeks. |
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| 2.5 weeks old. |
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