tales of the littlest Pickett

26.1.12

The Commute: and so it begins...

Allow me to introduce you to Onzy. Onzy has been my buddy since before I can remember, and is a face you will see often in these posts. He will be helping me document this journey with honesty and a sense of humour.

This is Onzy in his element: our bed, in Canada.

Home is now kilometres away and that is fine. I am at peace travelling alone because I know that I am truly never alone because God is always with me. What should I fear?

At 5:15 am, after a wonderful night of celebrating, my beautiful family packed me up and sent me on my way at Pearson Airport.
Thank you, Mummy, Papa, and Sarah for making the time to bid me farewell - even when I had my sad moments. I love you all so so much.

To my absolute surprise, I made a friend right off the bat! Just below this blurb is a picture of Rachel Montgomery, soon to be Rachel Bernard. It all began when I agreed to watch her wedding dress for her as she quickly ran to the washroom. As I began chatting with her, I quickly realized I knew her from a contact to a NGO in Southern Haiti given to me a year and a half ago! What are the odds, I mean, really?

Rachel is the co-ordinator of the Village of Hope Orphanage for the NGO Mission of Hope Haiti. We quickly hit it off at Pearson, shared lunch in Miami, and hauled her heavy (but beautiful) wedding gown around the airport. What a blessing to meet her! She gave me tips, pointers, and a mini Creole lesson! God bless you, Rachel! You are a true blessing to the people around you. Thank you for all of your care today. It was a pleasure to spend sometime with a true sister in Christ!

Check out Mission of Hope for Haiti, where Rachel works! They are an incredible organization: http://www.mohhaiti.org/

So now I wait. My ride to Santiago is at 5:50 pm.

I hope Onzy will let me have the window seat this time… he can be so demanding.

Much love,

Haleigh

14.12.11

Going to Haiti.

Hey, everyone.

As you may or may not know, I am leaving for Haiti January, 26, 2012.

Let the blogging begin...

27.4.10

Paris Continued...

LE Tour Eiffel

This is the style of the typical building (mainly apartments) in Paris.

That's a crazy girl ;)

Notre-Dame

Galleria (French "Shopping mall" in Paris)

... its ceiling.

Solenne deciphering Road Dahl on our boat tour of the Seine.

Eiffel Tower at night, with an over exposed head of a canadian in the left corner.

Louvre

(!!!)

This would've been such a good picture if I weren't blinking!

A Garden in the Quartier Mouffetard.

The Market at Place de Monge.

Wonderful Old Madame selling us breakfast from Bretagne.

The beautiful displays!

La Rue Mouffetard - my favourite place that we visited!

Stay tuned for more to come! I hope to in the next few days before I return home,

post all the pictures from the rest of Paris, but also Provence, to Switzerland to the Alps,

to my visit to Primary School!

BUT

As to be expected, my schedule is packed this last week, so I will try my very best!

Take care, Canada, and until tomorrow!

[It's bedtime in France.]

Haleigh

25.4.10

Paris

"Paris, the city of love and of lights ... oh, Quasey, I feel you!"

Paris is best left undescribed. There is no other place like it and it is completely and totally immense!

It has over 10 million habitants, and the amount of annual visitors to the city exceeds the total population of France itself.

Paris is in-absorbable.

Here is a taste of the billions of photos taken of our adventure in the city of lights; there will be more to come!

Berets!

Louvre

"Oh, Champs Elysees, OOOOh Champs Elysees..."

(I don't know if you know that song...)

So, a bit of Paris. But there is more from where that came from!

Germany!

If you ask me, I will be honest; I like France, but I love Germany.

There is something about Germans that just makes you want to have a beer and sing. We visited the region the capital of Blackforest; Freiburg. What a beautiful city!!

I have more pictures that I will add later, but for now, these will do!