It is Wednesday and well... today was very heavy to say the least. We have just returned from Titayen, a village thirty minutes north of Port au Prince. Again more members of "Train The Trainers" as well as a new member of our entourage escorted Alex, Stéphane and myself to the site where the Haitian government has permitted the "disposal" of earthquake debris and the bodies of close to 230,000 victims of January 12th.
Originally, Titayen was proposed as the site for our memorial competition. All along, the committee members have felt that this location is much too far from the city for a memorial to effectively commemorate such a historical event for Haiti, especially given that it is very typical of the culture here to carry an out-of-site-out-of-mind attitude. For us, today was supposed to be our time to visit and respect the victims of the quake, as well as eliminate the site from our list of possible memorial locations.
In Haiti, there is one arterial road that moves North-South from Port au Prince. The road is called "National 1" and on this two-lane road (pretend there are lines painted down the center and we might be able to call it a highway) one can experience busted gravel, smooth pavement and dust bowl style dirt road surfaces that seems to destroy more forms of transportation than it sustains.
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