Inside the little red circle is the compound where I have been staying. Outside the little red circle is Haiti. I took this picture from one of the remote clinics that I have been working at this week with a team of American doctors. The hike to get here is the same that Tracy Kidder writes about in the beginning of his book Mountains Beyond Mountains, a book I highly suggest to any readers of this blog.
One thing I learned this week is that Civil Engineering does not in any way prepare you for a Haitian Pharmacy. This is me and another Civil Engineer smiling before drowning in a wave of prescriptions. Also, teach-by-example does not apply when demonstrating drugs to patients.
This is an above-ground grave, probably one of the most stable structures you'll find in the middle of Haitian wilderness. In Haiti, bodies buried underground are subject to manipulation by demons (known as Jabs) in the soil. The result of such tampering leads to zombification in which a person is unable to die, forever trapped on Earth as a zombie. Consequently, wealthier Haitians place their loved ones' bodies above-ground in these concrete coffins.
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