You know you’ve lost the plot when you take your paintbrush and tray home at night. But you learn quickly on Build it Week, and while we thought we were prepared, nothing can quite prepare you for the real thing. While we painters were thought to have been given the soft jobs – it was tough, that rollin, rollin, rollin down in Haiti. Our twenty-seven strong team didn’t have the easiest start, with a shortage of equipment and paint, but we got stuck in with whatever we could find. Though, the sight of row upon row of unpainted houses was daunting in that heat on our first Monday morning, we had one house finished in the first hour, such was the enthusiasm and jostling for position to get a wall in the shade.
The Painting Team had more than its fair share of girls which we hope the lads appreciated, it certainly came in handy for the choreography, the Painting Team were the fearless openers of Haven’s Got Talent, and it was looking real good until The Finishers stole the whole show.
I know our patient foreman, Ian, will have despaired at my lack of skill at the beginning, who would have thought you could splash and spray so much?? With the tutelage of Brendan and Jim, techniques like ‘cutting in’ were honed and suddenly by Thursday with an abundance of paint there was a sunny disposition on the walls of the Haven village, courtesy of the Painters. We also had the privilege of handing over the first house, wonderfully customised by our talented crew, a moving moment for us and no doubt more so for Anouse Emmanuelle, Elien Nelson and their three daughters.
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