Haiti History

1. As Haiti has grown the forests have been cut down to make way for farmland and to for firewood for the people.

2. In 1915 the Americans invaded Haiti and left Haiti 19 years later.

3. The spanish people on Haiti killed most of the native people and imported african slaves to work for them.

4. When Duvalier ruled the country, the goverment killed the people who didn't agree with Duvalier.

5. While Duvalier ruled the country a lot of Haitians left the country for safety.

6. Only 30% of adults in Haiti are employed.

7. Haiti was ruled by bad people, for decades.

8. The french and americans hold a grudge for Haiti because of their loss and will not help the country.

9. When columbus and the europeans went to Haiti they brought disease, death and misery.

10. The people who ruled Haiti stole money from the people and left the people very poor.

Haiti Earthquake Update

In Haiti they had a 7.0 earthquake. It was so big that around 100,000-150,000 people died. Search teams from Miami, Turkey, Florida have come to Haiti to help. The search teams rescued around 60 people on Sunday. A lot of people in Haiti are scared but when 60 people got rescued the people who were scared had a little bit more hope. The people in Haiti are given food, water and health care.

Haiti Earthquake

On January 12, 2010 there was a 7.0 earthquake in Haiti. More than one hundred people died. During the earthquake a lot of people got injured. A lot of them got big cuts and bruises. Some people got squashed by buildings. There are some people that didn't get hurt that much. That is what happened on January 12, 2010.

Family

Over the break I spent a lot of time with my family. In my family from my mom's side there was my grandmother, my 6 uncles, 4 aunts and 6 cousins. I had a lot of parties with my family. It was so much fun!

We always had a very good meal in every party we had. The food that we usually have in the parties are Lechon, Lecheflan and a lot more foods. These foods are Filipino foods because my family lives in the Philippines.

After we ate some of the adults just talked until everybody left but sometimes they played the guitar and sang a few songs. They did not sound good at all. My mom was the one who was playing the guitar and she was also singing. She played the guitar really well but she didn't sound to good. I liked to play cards with my some of my uncles and my cousins while the adults talked and sang. I really enjoyed the food! I also enjoyed talking and playing cards with my family because I haven't seen them since August! I had the best time with my family, this is one of the things I like best about the Christmas Break!

Christmas Presents

On December 19 my mom got back home I was inside playing cards with my uncles. I was so happy to see my brother, Rommel again. I haven’t seen him since August. When he went in the house he told me to open his suitcase and put the presents under the Christmas tree. When I saw the outside of the card of one of the presents it said Maria. Then I read the other cards and they said Rachel, Noelle and Rachel, Maria and Noelle. I didn’t know that he would get presents for me and my sisters.
When I helped him bring his bag to his room he started playing a game on his computer. It was called Plants vs. Zombies. He let me add a new user and it was so much fun! I got really addicted to it. I played it non-stop. It was one of the most fun games I have ever played on the computer.

Home At Last- December 16

After the trip I had a long peaceful sleep. The next morning my mom woke me up to tell me that she was going back to Manila. I didn’t really care at that time because I was really sleepy. When I went down for breakfast I felt sick. For breakfast we had pancakes from McDonalds. I was just about to eat when I felt really sick. I felt like puking. My mom would have known what to do to help me but she was gone.

I felt sick the whole day and I thought I was going to be sick until my mom came back but at the end of the day I didn’t feel sick anymore. I hope this is the only day that I would be sick. I can’t wait to tell my mom about the day I got sick.