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"well, you know there was a time change"

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Chloe and I made pita bread for one of her school projects.  If I had a Haitian dollar for every time I have said, "Haiti should never observe daylight savings time," I would have a lot of Haitian dollars. If I had a Haitian dollar for every time a Haitian said, "well, you know there was a time change right?" I would have even more Haitian dollars. In years past, Haiti has not observed Daylight Savings Time, and now we know why. It messes everything up! Trust me, you thought that the time change was terrible in America because you lose and hour or you gain an hour...that doesn't have anything on a time change in Haiti. Things have consistently run an hour behind because most Haitians rise and set with the sun. That's a lot of how they base their day -- the daylight. Even though Haitian phone services changed the time automatically and people have reset their watches, our bodies are still conditioned for the time we've been on for years. It's