Saturday, November 13, 2010

Hold on... Be strong...

So I'm going to try and get this up to date as best as possible... there has so much that has happen since then so I am going to have to summarize some of the things that happen...
The bus that Dr. Bernard was able to get took all the kids and workers to the Guesthouse while Mike Brent Tia Naika Dr.Bernard Claudette and I went to check on the orphanage... We saw tons of destruction, devastation and death... I was speechless there was nothing I could do or say to fix this, I remember just thinking maybe if I just went to sleep I would wake up and all of it would be a dream. It took us about 4 hour to get to the guesthouse once we were arrived they quickly sat us down to eat. We went to our room shortly after and attempted to sleep, there were two after shocks that night. After the first one happen I was awake, I tried to go back to sleep but couldn't so I decided I would start writing down as much as I could... We got up and got ready so we could start on our journey to go back home... Little did I know that this was the start of one of the craziest days. We got to the airport even getting Tia in but little did we know that getting her into the airport wasn't that big of a step there was much more to come...
Up until this point the plan was for all of us to come home together on a private plane but from that point on none of the plans we had in our heads happen, it was all God from here. Mike stayed in Haiti with Tia because he would have gone to jail if he brought her home illegally while Brent and I came home. We had tons of obstacles and first experiences but thankfully after 36 hours and no sleep I was back in Nashville... those 36 hours were the most emotional 36 hours of my life, it all became real. The numbness went away and it hurt. Badly.
I didn't think I would ever come back, I didn't think I would see my family again. but what was harder was in the midst of those emotions the only thing I wanted was to be right back where I had just left. The country I loved and came to help had just experienced the most devastating natural disaster and I left three days after it happen...