In Haiti, classes come with a peek at the lush life
By Sarah Maslin Nir | New York Times | Updated: 2011-05-22 08:29
About 200 Haitians, including Rodman Decius, attend a school built by Royal Caribbean Cruises. Piotr Redlinski for The New York Times |
LABADIE, Haiti - On a jungle-covered hill, about 25 Creole-speaking kindergartners chanted numbers inside a gleaming classroom. Past noon, they spilled into the courtyard to dash across the gravel in a blur of blue and cream uniforms, each one embroidered with an anchor and the school's unusual name: "Ecole Nouvelle Royal Caribbean," or the New Royal Caribbean School.
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