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Last day in Haiti
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010today is our last day in country. We managed to connect with the Acupuncturists Without Borders team, who we met up with in Leogane, which is near the epicenter of the earthquake. It’s also about 18 miles (or 2 hrs in Haiti road time) out of Port-au-Prince, and a beautiful, horrifying drive. The devastation of the buildings along that seaside road is significant, and the green of cane fields and green hills rolling up from the ocean beautiful. We met Sally, Helen, Dina and Joseph of AWB at Mon Petit Village, a tent city of about 900 people, and we were very happy to receive treatments from them there.
After leaving them our drive Nixonn (no, really) took us to a private beach, teaming with Haitians enjoying sun and surf. We road the azure waters in a little boat, ate some shellfish cooked on the beach, and enjoyed ocean breezes. Such a welcome respite after workng n hot tents in the cty most of the week!
Later we drove through Port-au-Prnce, our first time into the city center