Haiti

Learning idioms in Haitian Creole the hard way

Tobias Metzner learns an important lesson about Haitian Creole when he’s threatened in a bathroom outside a ramshackle bar in post-earthquake Haiti.

Storyteller: Tobias Metzner

Date of Story: 2010
Location of Story: Port-au-Prince
Location:  New York City, U.S.A.
Date: 31 October, 2015

Postponed indefinitely: cleaning up the Haitian earthquake

Tobias Metzner arrived in Haiti three months after a devastating earthquake in 2010 that killed over 100,000 people and destroyed 250,000 homes.  He was puzzled as to why there was not more heavy equipment considering the amount of foreign aid for the country, and soon discovered that an enormous amount of machinery never cleared customs.

Storyteller: Tobias Metzner

Date of Story: April 2010-present
Location of Story: Port-au-Prince
Location:  New York City, U.S.A.
Date: 31 October, 2015