Friday, July 19, 2013

Monthly Grocery and Med's shopping trip to Port Au Prince

Every month Steve and Shana make a two day shopping trip to the city, mostly it's grocery shopping and stuff we need for the mission, but they also get a list of medicines that CAM doesn't have. This time I got to go along, because my brother and friend were flying out that day, so we got to experience it all. Steve and I went into the big pharmacy with a list, and shortly thereafter we got the list back and Steve phoned Shana out in the vehicle to give her the list of the meds the Pharmacy didn't have. Outside the pharmacy there's upwards of 10 to 20 different little stalls that people set up, to try and sell to people like us, and they often have all the stuff the pharmacy doesn't have inside and they know already that Steve and Shana do it that way. The above picture shows people started to gather, and offering stuff. Shana bargains and checks different ones. Usually we got most of what we want within 2 hours. It was interesting to say the least, by the time we were done bringing out the meds from the pharmacy Shana had most of her list bought as well. 

Here you can see Shana buying and handing the stuff back into the back seat.

Behind the scene stuff that sometimes happens, this time it was in Port Au Prince. Thankful for a spare in situations like that.
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Glenden and I had taken a sick lady to Grafu to catch a motto out to the hospital in Ti Goave right after lunch today, and coming back Alex informed us we needed to help this guy put a new tire on his motto.

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