First update from Cuba

This is the first time I have access to internet since we arrived in Cuba two weeks ago.   Work has been going well.  There is so much to say that I don’t have time to write, but I have edited some entries from my journal which may bring some insight into how Cuba is recovering from the twin hurricanes, and what it is like here, on the ground.  I only have time now to type one entry, because this computer will not receive the text file that i have saved on my memory stick.. I hope i can get more out.

My love to all of you,

From Cuba.

Logan

————–day1————-

It is a long red-eye flight from Seattle to houston, and then from houston to cancun, where i meet the rest of the ragtag crew drawn together from across the U.S.  Together there are about twenty of us.  There are no direct flights from the US.  Evn traveling through mexico like this is breaking the US blockade against cuba.  Unjust laws must be broken.

We are in Havana.  I am standing in front of the customs counter and the officer, with a beautiful face and a serious expression is shoutiung at me.  I fiunally understand enough to look up at a camera behind her and she quiets while my photo is taken.   Something amazing happens –  she looks at me again and does a 180 change.  She smiles with such fratenity and sincerity that itr rtakes my breath away.

“Buenvenidos.”

I take my passport and head for the door, smiling.  This must be Cuba.  Everything will be different.

We load into an old Schoolbus and soon we are at a social center in Havean named after Martin Luther King Jr.   There are political banners on the wallof the dining hall from demonstrations all round the world.  I see one in the corner from the G8 protests in Germany, where i was last summer.

We eat dinner, and receive speeches from different officials who are involved in the hurricane recovery and international solidarity workers from Cuba, and the churches as well.

Tomorrow we go to Pinar Del Rio,. and then to Puerto Esperanza, the village where our project awaits us.