(Haiti Is NOT Dying)
For the past three days I’ve been working side by side with a friendly computer tech. His English proficiency being equivalent to my kreyol, did not allow our conversations to extend much past the typical pleasantries. Last night he ate dinner at our house…thanks to a translator, we for the first time, were able to have a semi legitimate conversation. It was then that I was told, he, this man with whom I’d been exchanging simple greetings all week, had been trapped for 4 days under rubble in Port Au Prince after the earthquake. His comforting smile and nervous laugh had in no way prepared me for this discovery. The horrific disaster of January 12th really did happen, and it happened to him, the man sitting across the table from me. He drank his own urine for days waiting for his friends, who he was able to call from his cell phone, to dig to his rescue.
by Cold War Kids
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