COMING IN THIRD

Hello my dear family and friends! How are you all? Wow, it has been a long time since I updated my blog. As I have mentioned before,...

Haiti is a country of many greetings and salutations. There are many different ways of addressing people from teasing to endearing. I...

The other day I was in Maison Bon Samaritain talking with Jackson. Since coming to Haiti I almost always wear sleeveless shirts for...

Hello everyone! Hello my dear family and friends, acquaintances, and whoever else has stumbled upon this blog. WOW, it’s been over half a...

Waaaaaaaay back in October, I started on a project at Maison Bon Samaritain (MBS). MBS is a home for the poor, specifically the elderly...

As we go through life, we encounter many challenges. We have bad days when we cannot seem to do anything right and when the last ball...

[Link to a special video at the bottom ;) ] Ooooo-oooooooh. I get it. For all those in the United States, I get it now. I understand the...

Since December has arrived, I’ve been hard-pressed to write. Writing doesn’t come easy to me, although the first posts that I wrote on...

Hello! It has certainly been a while. My deepest apologies for that. I’ve had nearly this entire blog post written since October 4th, but...

It has been unfortunate timing on my part to arrive in Haiti on the precipice of a pandemic. The situation here, however, is not one of...

Stepping out my front door and turning to lock it, I start on my way to work just as I do every weekday morning. Moving to the left, I...

For the past two weeks, a thought has been plaguing my mind… Jill, you gotta do your blog… I KNOW! I just… don’t have anything to say…...

One of the questions I get here a lot is, “Do you like Haiti?” Normally I choose the easy response and say that yes, I do like Haiti. It...

“I’m praying for two months” says Geri, and we all think: but bracing for longer. Halfway into my third week post-language school, I find...

“L ap vonmi!!!” came the ever so tactful cry as I stood next to the garden… throwing up. It was my fifth and last day into my first...

It's currently who knows what time and who knows what woke me, but the noise is still there. It's the scratching of tiny feet on a tin...

"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. The journey of a thousand miles must begin...

The hardest part of writing a blog, or starting to write a blog, is deciding on the name. It's the hardest, in my opinion, because you...