When we came back home the very first thing I noticed as I walked through the door was how much stuff we have. The people in Haiti have virtually nothing at all. Their houses are made of either concrete, if they live in the city, and either mud or reeds. They have no glass windows, they are either covered with cloth or just random holes in the wall. Their doors are just the same as the windows. It was devestating. We were staying in Fond Parisian, which is just outside if Port au Prince, the capitol. Where we were staying was the places where the earthquake had hit the least. But it was still just awful!
We went to a fishermen village where we went on a boat ride in a large lake. The lake had been a huge volcano but it had collapsed inwards. And in it's place the lake had formed. Some large ministries had paid for and built some houses their. But their was some tectonic plate shifting that bust some underground springs. Which has made the lake rise. All of those homes are now underwater. That is one of those homes.
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