the president of haiti is a bloke known as sweet micky - michel martelly. he was the president of kompa - haitian dance music - before he became the president of haiti, and he seems to be pretty well liked... it's a bit of a classic - i think the bit below says bald headed president (president head bald)... can't quite imagine graffiti like this proclaiming gilliard... (especially cos she's not bald).
and this is a twisted building around the corner from where kel lives. it looks better from further up the street: the stairs look epic, but it's always tricky taking photos on the street here... there are many reminders of the earthquake throughout the city, leaning structures, and tortured sculptures of concrete and steel... in fact kellyanne and i walked by a place they were demolishing a few days ago, and on the street nearby hordes of people were collecting up the reo - fat, tangled bars of steel that they were cutting and loading into the ubiquitous wheelbarrows, the backs of tap taps, and utes, and carting away...
on the gates or walls of the buildings of port au prince there are spray painted stencils, with an acronym and a number. if it is green, the structure has been declared sound; yellow, and it requires a little work but is habitable; red and it is condemned.... (there also seems to be black, however i'm not sure what that means)...
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