Blue Haiti. Jelissa Ortega

I read an article a couple weeks ago in the New York Times about the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. The reason I read this article was because the title caught my attention, "Blue Haiti". The author of this article was born and raised in Haiti and then she came to America. She would visit Haiti from time to time. In the article she began to paint a picture for the reader that described how she would look out the plane when she was arriving to her homeland and she would see the green grass and beautiful scenery. She enjoyed going to back to her country and reminisce about her childhood and how she felt so happy being surround by loving family and friends. Even though she lived a hard life by struggling to eat and survive with such a large family, They were still happy and grateful for being alive. However when the earthquake hit Haiti nothing was the same. She went to visit her family as soon as she could but as she looked out the window of her plane as she usually would, she just saw blue tents filled with hundreds of families that were left homeless. She was heart broken to see her country so different from how it was the last time she was there. She interviewed a couple of family friends and asked them how they were dealing with this tragedy and even though it was hard to handle they were still glad to be alive. This made her happy to see the people from her country be so strong after such a life changing event.