by Caitlin Kenney

Humor in Haiti is hard to come by these days. Adam sends the closest thing he's heard — a joke from Sebastian, the driver he and Chana hired to take them through the streets of Port Au Prince:

"Thank god this happened in Haiti and not New York or Miami. That would have really ruined the Haitian economy."

Sebastian is of course referring to all the remittances sent back to the country by Haitian ex-pats. The World Bank estimates that Haiti received about $1.3 billion in remittances in 2008, about 18.7 percent of the country's GDP.