Travel – Haiti Archive
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![Spending over four months in a place will always make leaving a bittersweet experience for me. On one hand I loved Haiti, the work I got to do there, the […]](http://nerdynomad.com/wp-content/themes/arras-theme-master/images/thumbnail.png "Goodbye Gonaives, I’ll Miss You!")
Goodbye Gonaives, I’ll Miss You!
Posted on March 30, 2009 | 3 CommentsSpending over four months in a place will always make leaving a bittersweet experience for me. On one hand I loved Haiti, the work I got to do there, the […] -
Nightlife Options in Gonaives
Posted on January 30, 2009 | No CommentsBack when I arrived in early November it seemed like everyone was living in fear a bit. The streets were covered in mud, there was no power in the city, […] -
New Years Along the Side of Many Haitian Roads
Posted on January 1, 2009 | No CommentsFor our holiday all of us were looking for some serious relaxation and a chance to do next to nothing beyond eating lots of bad for us food, drinking cocktails […] -
The Craziest Xmas Day of My Life (So Far)
Posted on December 26, 2008 | No CommentsI’ve been in Haiti for about six weeks now and the blisters on my hands and bruises on my legs say that I need a holiday. So early on Xmas […] -
A Great Day of Buckets, Football and Parties
Posted on December 21, 2008 | No CommentsI can safelty say that I haven’t worked any harder in my life than I have this week so I was looking very forward to a day of lounging around […] -
Running with Wheelbarrows
Posted on December 18, 2008 | No CommentsYesteday a crew of about 8 of us finished clearing a massive house of an insane amount of mud. The house was expected to take two weeks but ended up […] -
Camping in the Wilds of Haiti
Posted on December 15, 2008 | No CommentsSix girls wandering around the outskirts of Gonaives with tents is apparently a confusing thing for the local population to see. We decided it would be a fun (and ridiculous) […] -
Adventures in Haitian Nightclubbing
Posted on November 23, 2008 | No CommentsLast night was one of those crazy nights I seem to have from time to time. As a volunteer with Hands On, we get Sundays off and have to work […] -
Another Pretty Amazing Day in Haiti
Posted on November 17, 2008 | 2 CommentsToday saw a group of about 10 volunteers, half locals and half international, heading out to a mud-encrusted neighbourhood to deliver sets of tools to 50 families. Oxfam is behind […] -
My First Week in Haiti
Posted on November 13, 2008 | 1 CommentI’ve been in Gonaives, Haiti for a week now and I have seen a lot of mud. A LOT. The entire town is covered in it. I’m not sure exactly […]