Personal Experience: My Trip To Gonaives

DISPLACEMENT Friday morning we started a long displacement to the Gonaives city. In Gonaives, we would stop for two days before going to the building place. One of my first actions was to meet the drives. They were very good drives but is always necessary to remind everyone about safety rules. However, my main concern was about another issue. I discovered that usually some of them had been taking off the protection plates of the bulletproof vest. That time the situation in Haiti was already more under control, but in my belief, this attitude was very unacceptable. In order to persuade them I said that I would not to tell their families that one of them passed away due a lack of self-safety precautions. After that, the convoy began to move to Gonaives. I was in the derrick truck wearing all the required equipment. I already had seen bad roads in Brazil, but this time I was seeing the worst road ever seen in my whole life. Due the large number of …show more content…
I already had took some English classes in Brazil. Obviously I was far to be considered fluent in English. Nevertheless, on the course of this mission my few skills were useful in some situations. During the break to switch the escort security, I could realize the difficulty that was to keep a good communication. One of this reasons was the of the Middle East accent that becomes the English Language harder to understand. We just had bring a French interpreter because it is the mean language in Haiti, so the communication in English was impaired. The challenge was to match the back schedule. I tried do it and I think I was succeed because in the back way the security escort was waiting for us in the right point. To be able to communicate in one or two foreign languages bring many advantages in the military, even in the civilian life. Since that day, I decided that the English would be a personal priority for