Getting ready for Haiti

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Deciding what to take for 10 days when the climate is hot and steamy and you know that bathing is haphazard at best- well it is a dauting task. So I sprayed socks, tee shirts and scrub pants with Premethrin,and have rolled them so they fit in large zip locks and now my back pack is full. What is too disgusting to bring home will stay behind. No makeup, earrings, hair fixins needed so all my personal effects fit in the backpack. Lots of baby wipes for bathing, hand sanitizer and tissues for whatever. My hair has been cut quite short.
This is the first time I have had to bring my own food. Did you know that the dollar store has individual tuna and chicken salad packs with crackers?I have beans and rice, pasta and herbs to donate to the communal cooking efforts. And a giant bag of M&M's.
These Haiti pictures are from 5 years ago. In my big bag are lots of crayons for the hospital(they bear a "pharm" logo so cannot be distributed in the US) which reminded me that these wer e an unknown on the last trip. We had to teach the kids to color and they had never seen coloring books pages. Culture shock!
I am told there is wireless internet at the hospital and my sweet husband has given me a netbook so I will blog and send as I can.