The new group of 27 is awesome. They arrived throughout the day on Monday with the look of "what kind of shit did I get myself into" that we all had. Canadians, once again, are showing their numbers in Haiti. We have a carpenter, an ex comedian, a chef, a politician, a calgarian oil banker, 3 or 4 shawtaays and some other people. Phil and I gave them a tour of jacmel on taxi bikes that everyone seemed to enjoy. A few of them started working today.

The building we are working on at the orphenage is really coming along. We bring two sets of people- workers and people that occupy the kids. We always seem to have a crowd gathered when we build. It must be because they've never seen anyone actually work for more than 15 minutes. The framing is up and sturdy as we've dug holes and cemented the bases. Its pretty brutal in 115 degree weather.

There was a demonstration of about 10000 yesterday in downtown jacmel. They were protesting the government and the UN. Interesting mix. While all the cops in the city were doing crowd control, apparently quite a few prisonners escaped the city jail.

I'd like to bitch a little bit about GVN, if I may. They seem to think it is acceptable to "tour" the tent cities (displacement camps) to show the new people. The directors must really get off on walking through other peoples misery. Don't go there unless you are doing work. These people have very little privacy as it is, show them respect and don't flash cameras in their faces while parading around an inhumane place.

I have to prepare my "conversational english" class for about 60 munts. Also, I am finally sick. I'm glad its happening now instead of earlier on the rotation. So long.

Ps; larry is leaving tomorrow which is fantastic!