Shipping Container!

Quite a while ago, some caring individuals packed a couple of shipping containers full of stuff for Haiti.  Some donated, some personal stuff, some of some stuff I might have to question as to why it was worth shipping here!

Well, we were informed last week that the containers had been released from the Port au Prince port authority or whatever bureau holds on to things for whatever reason.  Of course the costs keep climbing and the delivery dates keep getting pushed back, but today...the first of the two shipping containers arrived.  We asked for "The green one."  This container had tools, hand carts, stuff we need to unload the other one...of course, we got "The other one!"  Oh well...we unloaded the 40 foot shipping container by hand into our yard.  We also bought the shipping container itself, so our plans were to take it to Jubilee and drop it by the school for storage.

It's nice to have plans!  We were not sure how they would remove the shipping container from the truck's carriage, but we figured they would know how.  Well, first of all, we were going to have to spend more money!  Next, we didn't actually have a group of experts at removing a shipping container from a carriage at our disposal.  Long story short, the shipping container is no longer on the carriage and the truck is headed back to Port au Prince to pick up our other container.  On a side note, the container is not even close to where we want it and it is on its side!

Nobody got hurt, we can find a way to get it where and how we want it...I got a little sun burned...I did not plan on standing around for four hours this afternoon trying to drop this container.  Another fun day in Haiti!

Scott