and a friend of mine -- and as michelle montass and some of you will have seen jonathan demme's film about a martyred journalist who was killed in haiti. he was murdered maybe 10 or 11 years ago. anyway, she -- they're both radio journalists and prodemocracy radio journalists. i asked her if she would help on a project, not this book -- and other people got together and they decided to go out to all -- what is it, jenny, 9 or 10 departments -- i'm looking at jenny block because she bought the tape-recorders. you got to do that because you have to have the infrastructure of inquiry. and a group of haitians and a couple of non-haitians but who spoke fluent creole and they asked people who were market fishermen or displaced people in the camps, street vendors, schools, farmers -- not farmers like me, but farmers with -- you know. you know, what do you want for your country? and the thing that was inspiring and as you said "delicious," they didn't say -- the theme that came back was not, we don't believe in the future of our country. none of that. they were actually optimistic about the