When my team left to begin our mission trip to Haiti, we were expecting Haiti to be really hot and extremely humid. We were really surprised when we got to Haiti and it rained pretty much every day. Later, we learned that the reason for all the rain was because of a tropical depression that was passing through. When the eight of us girls finally got our tent set up at Northwest Haiti Christian Mission (which is a completely different story in itself), we thought the worst was behind us. It wasn’t until that night when the eight of us piled into the tent, that we realized how wrong we were. We had set the tent up right next to the one of the walls of the dorm. Unfortunately, it was also near where the water poured out of the gutter, causing water to pool under our tent. Which caused everything in the tent to become wet. Then, because we were unable to use the metal stakes on the concrete patio when we were securing the tent, the tent wasn’t fully stretched out. This caused us to have an occasional leak, due to water pooling on the roof of the tent. By the end of the week we went from having eight people in the tent to only four. The fourth night we spent in Haiti was the last night the four of us spent in the tent. That night it rained really badly and we ended up sleeping in about an inch of water with water pouring on us from the roof. The following day, we took down the tent (which was a whole lot easier than putting it up) and spent about one to two hours getting all the water out and then we packed it up for the trip home. That night we all slept in the dorm which was so different to the four of us who had stayed out in the tent. It was so hot and stuffy compared to sleeping in the tent but it was definitely a lot dryer!
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