Sunday, April 18, 2010


hi Ben, how's this...



we've landed
this afternoon, i sat on my bed (the mattress Niko and I share on the floor of our living room at Canadian Mennonite University, WINNIPEG, Manitoba) and started going threw some files that we've been storing in a suitcase.  Gabou, observing me, said: "Mama, we're going another place?".  "Of course not darling", I replied.  We been here 3 weeks yesterday, longer than we've stayed anywhere since we left Haiti in January.  Haiti is worth mentioning here b/c it's living a while in Haiti (and MCC) that has helped us develop the required skills for this kind of moment to moment living...     

 It's hard to believe it was only yesterday when Gabou could carry Niko and we were still home in Haiti. 



Two weeks ago, we listened and actually watched the ice berg cracking and bumping down the Assiniboine River.  


And last week Niko celebrated his half-birthday with some butternut squash in the CMU cafeteria 


Here are some of all of our favourite things about Winnipeg, so far:  Zavi (our nephew and cousin), Winnipeg Transit, more time with family...

cinnamon buns from Tall Grass Prairie Bakery, sunshine, and going out in my sweats (i haven't brushed my hair in weeks : )  no one knows me here ; )  --it's delicious


















yes, we miss things about Haiti:  our neighbours, rice and kalalou sauce, cherry juice, a pile of swiss chard for 25g,  the mountains, Niko's many admirers, and most of all feeling the love and that Haiti dishes out abundantly from the moment the blazing sun rises and where every moment is lived fully and with as much laughter as is possible.   And of course, where people know me/us from kilometres around.