Describing Ayiti

Whenever I talk to someone they ask me 'How is Haiti' or how my trip in Haiti is going so far. For me, that is such a hard question to answer. Usually I try to give a one word answer to describe the whole of it, something like awesome or amazing. Or I try to describe the temperature - hot. The weather - drizzling rain. What I did that week- built houses. I think all of these help to describe parts of Haiti, or what I did so far in Haiti, but it still doesn't paint the picture how I want.

Finally I went online and googled words that could describe Haiti for me. These are my favorite ones it came up with: 

amazing
Awe-inspiring
beautiful
breathtaking
Moving
overwhelming
Tragic
wonderful

Even now looking at those words I don't think they are doing as good of a job as I would like. I have been racking my brain for the past few days on how to describe what being here is like personally, for me. Finally this morning, after my run in the rain this is what I came up with: 

Being in Haiti for is like being underwater and coming up for a breath of fresh air. The air may not always smell the best- its usually a mix of burning garbage, BO, a whiff of the ocean breeze and fragrant flowers- but it is the deepest breath you take. It is so real and so raw, there is nothing fake about it. How can that not be the best breath you take?