February 6, 2010
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Micah’s e-mail:
The first day that I got here (Jan. 20) it felt like a war zone. There were about 15 helicopters that never shut off, they would just fly in and load up and go non stop. We were amazed by everything, but slowly I have become numb to a lot of things.
Life here has always been hard, but now hard for some people has a totally different meaning. There are tens of thousands of people living in tent cities everywhere. Just about every building that we pass by that is collapsed has the stench of death and you know that underneath all of that rubble is someone that did not make it out alive. And it is house after house that has happened to. It is so sad to me, and it is hard to take sometimes. But the Haitian people are moving on. I know that they are hurting though. I have talked to a few of my friends down here and they started crying on my shoulder because of all the death that they have seen. They talked about all the piles of bodies that were in the streets, and how people were going through them trying to find their loved ones. And I know that many people heard a lot of this in the news, but to actually talk to a person that had been there and seen it is just totally different. It is so heart wrenching some times that if you don’t take a break, you’ll go nuts. And I am pretty calm and collected most of the time, but this has pushed me to a new level that I have not experienced before.
Pray for us as we are doing a lot of paper work and dealing with the American, and Haitian government trying to get 70 orphans to America. We keep on hearing that we are going to be able to take them out of here, and then it doesn’t work out. So it is a little bit of a frustrating situation that we are working on.
Also the number of kids is now over 110 children at HCRM, it is getting really crowed here. And that number is increasing every day. Kids just walk in and nobody knows their story, or where they came from. I have been surprised at how much progress is taking place. There are people still picking up trash along the streets 24hr a day. And there is a lot of big equipment that is taking rubble out.
Keep praying for us as I am praying for all of you.
