"Lest We Forget ...", the title of the blog launched in 2008 by Jean-François Labadie, Quebec settled in the suburbs of Port-au-Prince, has taken a different meaning since the earthquake of January 12
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"If the streets ayisienes (Haitian Creole) are full of smiles and sounds Overall, we felt a deep all day quiet stroll on the sidewalks. The serenity of a population on whom fortune has never been a head a little bit comfortable. Jean-François Labadie is a storyteller who does not know. Elegant pen, dignity and accuracy of the story: his blog deserves to be published until his testimony is poignant and strong.
Launched in 2008, the site of the Quebec forties, working in Haiti for the International Health Unit of the University of Montreal, was designed to deliver impressions of his stay in Petionville, in the suburbs of Port-au-Prince.
"I was not sure which of God or the''if''was more important in the expression''If''Dye vle (BDLR: If God wills in Haiti), wrote he December 2008. The''if''refers to an event, implies a size or possible future. It seems indeed difficult for the Haitian people to project into the future. The future just is not in the Creole language. "
"To remember ..." the blog title of Jean-François Labadie, took a different meaning since the earthquake of January 12 and assured him a reputation involuntary. "My blog, normally visited by a dozen people a day, received over 3500 hits today! Journalists from France and Quebec want to interview me to hear me say that I was afraid that the dead litter the sidewalks, the buildings collapsed. Everything that everyone already knows! Funny business, "says he . This book, however
stories amazing on post-earthquake: "People call people and they tell stories that will make one of all media. The most sympathetic is that of a small remote-controlled truck that started to move the feet of parents anxious about the remains of their house. They came to understand that their son had not died under the rubble. "
The event has honed his talents as an observer. "Life still surface again, as if the 32 coups and several hundred hurricanes that passed over the island for 200 years, had led this population to cope with everything. At anything. "
Stéphane Dreyfus
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"If the streets ayisienes (Haitian Creole) are full of smiles and sounds Overall, we felt a deep all day quiet stroll on the sidewalks. The serenity of a population on whom fortune has never been a head a little bit comfortable. Jean-François Labadie is a storyteller who does not know. Elegant pen, dignity and accuracy of the story: his blog deserves to be published until his testimony is poignant and strong.
Launched in 2008, the site of the Quebec forties, working in Haiti for the International Health Unit of the University of Montreal, was designed to deliver impressions of his stay in Petionville, in the suburbs of Port-au-Prince.
"I was not sure which of God or the''if''was more important in the expression''If''Dye vle (BDLR: If God wills in Haiti), wrote he December 2008. The''if''refers to an event, implies a size or possible future. It seems indeed difficult for the Haitian people to project into the future. The future just is not in the Creole language. "
" Life still surface again "
"To remember ..." the blog title of Jean-François Labadie, took a different meaning since the earthquake of January 12 and assured him a reputation involuntary. "My blog, normally visited by a dozen people a day, received over 3500 hits today! Journalists from France and Quebec want to interview me to hear me say that I was afraid that the dead litter the sidewalks, the buildings collapsed. Everything that everyone already knows! Funny business, "says he . This book, however stories amazing on post-earthquake: "People call people and they tell stories that will make one of all media. The most sympathetic is that of a small remote-controlled truck that started to move the feet of parents anxious about the remains of their house. They came to understand that their son had not died under the rubble. "
The event has honed his talents as an observer. "Life still surface again, as if the 32 coups and several hundred hurricanes that passed over the island for 200 years, had led this population to cope with everything. At anything. "
Stéphane Dreyfus
(Source: www.lacroix.fr)
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