We're Here, We've Arrived and Siobhan is All Excited-Like

We're staying a Sister Mary's place -- the same place I stayed during this summer's delegation. I think Sister Mary is incredibly cool, and they have wireless here (a luxury!), so I decided to come here rather than my usual guest house.

Sio did an amazing job rounding up some used baby clothes, so we brought two whole suitcases of used baby clothes, school supplies and peanut butter. The first two items will go to some local charities here, and the last is for the guest house.

We got in around 3:30 last night -- Sister Mary picked us up at the airport which was its normal level of crazy. There's a church group from Indiana, who seemed quite nice, but they're packing up their stuff to head home today.

Why is Cuban Aid So Much Better than Canadian Aid?

Sister Mary was telling me, this morning, that one of the initiatives that Cuba has here is an initiative to save electricity. They've hired people to go door to door and take people's incandescent bulbs and replace them with fluorescent "green" bulbs. They figure that the reduction in energy consumption might be enough to enable big cities to have 24-hour electricity.

Cuba's projects, here, are always simple, down-to-earth programmes.