Arrival in Haiti

Street market – view from the bus coming into Port au Prince Tent city

Street market – view from the bus coming into Port au Prince Tent city in back left of the photo (click on the picture to make it bigger)

We’re here… both totally exhausted. Staying with the Sinema Anba Zetwal (Cinema Under the Stars) guys in Petionville, a suburb of Port au Prince. They took us around a tent city tonight …  one of the largest. We were both taken aback by how calm and well organised it was   –  35,000 people living on what was a golf course. On the bus ride in earlier we saw many many collapsed buildings, and tents in almost every spare space…  but we havent seen the worst of the damage yet. Eric the Cinema Under the Stars tech guy is going to help us make a rig for the screen… basically two 12 foot poles that break down into 4 pieces for easy transportation. As soon as they’re made, we’ll do a screening in Laurence’s neighborhood, and then the tent city. Feeling very tired, but feeling like we’re on our way.

Petionville Club – a tent city with 35,000 inhabitants

Petionville Club – a tent city with 35,000 inhabitants

one of the shopping streets at night in the same tent city

one of the shopping streets at night in the same tent city

dave and marko looking blurry after the journey from the dominican republic

dave and marko looking blurry after the journey from the dominican republic

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