Working with a great group of students this week, very enjoyable. This is my second trip to Port-au-Prince, and I am finding that from the technical perspective there is a surprise around every corner.

Last week, I was in London and was able to execute a significant amount of work in a very short time based on a good plan and a set of known variables. Here in Haiti, you really have to be flexible. Like REALLY flexible.

We are finding that the high-level plan we arrived with pretty much needed to be discarded within hours of getting to work. This isn’t necessarily bad, as many our assumptions from the May visit had expired and we faced a new set of circumstances that work in UEH’s favor, but require us to rethink our steps as we work toward meeting their needs. There will much more to tell in this regard as we roll along, but for now I hope our students are appreciating the value of adaptability, thinking on your feet as a given situation changes, and the need to be able to quickly formulate new technical strategies as more intel on the circumstances at hand come available. Not taking things personally, and a good sense of humor certainly help- I think our group is doing well in this regard now that we are half way through the trip.

There is a lot of positive energy at work here, and I don’t think anyone would disagree that it has been and continues to be infinitely interesting!