Hi everyone, I´ve been without internet for the past few days which has made blog updates a bit complicated, but my internet is back up and running again so I can continue updating. I´ve been speaking to Elena quite regularly, as she now has a new phone that finally works! Although today my calls aren´t going through and the conversations are often brief because the call gets quickly disconnected. I guess I got too excited after speaking to her two days in a row, so much for the new phone, but I can´t complain considering where she is and that we are in touch as often as we are.
As her translation skills are highly needed and as she is doing such a great job, she has been asked to stay on in Haiti for a bit longer. She has been given a new role as Coordinator and is currently in charge of a group of volunteers that have arrived from the Basque Country in Spain and for now will not be going back to Santo Domingo.
She was quite funny when I spoke with her yesterday. Her co-workers told her that she has been working far too hard (considering that she wakes up everyday at 5 a.m and as for what time she goes to bed, I don´t have the heart to ask her so as not to remind her of the hours she must be working) so they decided to give her some genuine Haitian rum. When I spoke with her she had only had a small sip and said that she wasn´t going to have anymore because between the exhaustion, her terrible cold and the 92º heat that it had already gotten to her head! We were laughing at her inability to hold her liquor.
She said that aside from her cold, she was very happy and proud of the fact that they were making a lot of progress. The kids at the orphanage were doing well and things are slowly falling into place, but as always there is much more work to be done.
I will keep on calling and will let you know when I get through again. In the meantime don´t forget to check the MOSCTHA blog and Facebook fan page for recent photos.
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