3 in 1

Today was our second day of distribution with the Peruvian troops. They were actually low on soldiers, so they brought over some soldiers from the Uruguay's troop, as well. Today's distribution was a little bit more smoother than yesterday's, but not by much. For some reason, the rules of letting in only women representatives were not followed. The rules of the distribution site is that we can only allow female representatives in to receive the donations, because men usually bring trouble. This is not a stereotype, but mostly due to experience. It is true that in Haiti the men tend to be more physical and aggressive in mass population situations. We also started up the Tzu Chi Free Clinic again today, but only afternoon sessions, since the distribution was in the morning. I was MCing the distribution ceremony, along side Pierrot (our driver/body guard). It is really nice doing the MCing job with Pierrot, because we communicate really well and he is like a big brother to me.

Once again curve balls were thrown our way this morning. On the way to the distribution, one of our trucks broke down and wouldn't start back up again. We didn't have another car to pick up the people, so instead the Peruvian army let the people onto their army cameo trucks. It was very cool. It was all the 3 in 1 people (Video, Pictures, Words) that got to go on the cameo. It was pretty cool. For some reason the 3 in 1 people always get in sticky situations. Just the other night, they were at the border of Dominican Republic leading one of our container trucks back to Haiti and I guess the truck driver was having some attitude problems with the police. Instead of just having a vocal fight, the police took everyone back to the police station in Haiti. The truck was taken away, the driver was taken away, and leaving the 3 in 1 people not knowing what to do. They ended up being forced to go to the police station at nighttime and one of our other drivers had to go explain the situation and bail them out. Thanks to Peter (real name Pierre), who used to be one of the heads of the police department in Haiti. He went in and fixed the whole situation in just a jiffy. It is quite a story. Not everyone can be taken to the police station in Haiti.

I had another Haitian lunch box today....can we all say yum???