sweet relief

I made it!!! I'm sitting on my bunk bed safe and sound with Miss Becca...hallelujah!

The traveling went surprisingly well! I was pretty terrified deep down that I'd be arriving in Haiti alone. I was immediately relieved in Miami when I met a group of about 10 people traveling to a different orphanage in Haiti. I basically latched onto their group...they were a great bunch from Ohio and they taught me some card games. Good times. THEN I met Martha, a girl my age who was traveling to the same orphanage as me! I was so excited. Martha's in nursing school and she's pretty incredible!

I don't even know where to begin...it's great here!! And BEAUTIFUL. Driving in Haiti is ridiculous...I thought I was going to meet my death before I even made it to the orphanage. Kidding, kind of. 

The volunteers here are awesome! It's going to be great working with them. We all ate dinner together (the food was tasty!) and we got to play with some of the kids for a bit after dinner. They are absolutely adorable...and they all want to be held so badly. I'm so glad Becca is here to show me around too! We went and kissed the kids goodnight together, and I'm pretty sure that's going to be one of my favorite parts of each day.

I find out who my kids will be tomorrow! I'm so excited and ready to spend time with them! I could ramble on forever, but overall I'm so relieved to be here and looking forward to these next few weeks!

Random funny story on the plane:

I met a 7 year old girl from Haiti who sat in the seat in front of me. She was hilarious, and kept me company for the majority of the flight. Anyway...she saw that I had a camera, and asked if she could take "some" pictures. Let's just say at the end of the flight I had about 75 random pictures from inside of our plane. I'll try to post some funny ones on here if I can figure out how!!