Roger That

By C. A. Y.

This is a novelette/memoir by C. A. Y. who tells a story about involvement with humanitarian organizations in Haiti. A paperback version is also available without abbreviation of the "whistleblower" name and titles, but it comes with a heafty cost and/or after a lenghty ordeal, so for the average reader please enjoy this eBook version for the very cheap price of FREE and probably only for a limited time. Written in 2021; second-hand witness setting: 2008-2015 +/- 4.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Oct 8, 2021
• ISBN: 9781387470563

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Roger That

‘a story’

ISBN: 978-1-387-47056-3

Imprint: www.lulu.com

by

C. A. Y.

©2021

List of other books/writings

by C. A. Y.

Novels:

G. L. ©2020

N. A. ©2016

I. ©2015

T. H. S. ©2014

P. T. P. © 2012

V. I. H. ©2011

T. G. C. ©2010

D. W. ©2009

A. A. D. ©2008

M. B. ©2007

Non-fiction:

H. F. D. ©2019

A. E. O. T. O. O. H. ©2019

T. F. O. R. ©2018

T. A. S. ©2017

T. E. O. C. ©2015

1st novelette/memoir by C. A. Y.:

***** That

‘a story’

©2021

Introduction:

Before beginning the story, it is important to give some background. The setting begins in 2008 when I was 26 years old, and it was the middle of the third time I had been in Haiti. The first time was for two weeks in 2004 with a small humanitarian mission group based out of Michigan who were friends of family. I had wanted to go on some kind of humanitarian trip abroad at the time and the opportunity arose to go to Haiti. It was not necessarily my first choice but I jumped at the opportunity because I was adventurous and motivated, never having left continental North America before. Those two weeks in 2004 mainly consisted of being a foreman for the painting of a clinic in a small coastal town with hired locals. Some had some fluency in English and I had some fluency in French; it was enough to make friends and return for a second time in early 2006 for two months for the purpose of learning French-Creole while tutoring a physically handicapped local who was fluent in English, and also helping to teach English classes on Saturdays until I realized I didn’t have the patience to be a language teacher. In any case, by the end of the second trip, I was able to have a basic conversation in the local language and had made friends in and explored the beautiful town and area.

After my second trip, I spent most of 2006 and 2007 as an archaeologist in Ontario, Mississippi, and other parts of Eastern North America. In early 2008 I decided to go back to Haiti for a third time. The original humanitarian organization I had worked with previously had split into two, so I chose to volunteer with the organization which gave me more free time and freedom. I was very independent and had a vague role as an assistant supervisor of a largely abandoned orphanage, which in reality consisted of making sure food and necessary supplies are purchased without corruption. It was a great way to become more fluent in the language and learn about the local culture firsthand. It also seemed to have made a positive