Thurs 29/04/10
Big day today. Well they’re all big days, but it’s been eventful to say the least.
The playground has flown up over the week and we were particularly glad to be ahead of the posse when at an unscheduled special meeting, Haven founder , Leslie, told us that with the resumption of eruptions in Iceland we were going to have to leave Haiti a day early to be sure of getting home. This left everyone a bit concerned that we’d achieve our target of building 60 homes in the week, but the foremen are happy we’ll achieve it by Saturday lunchtime. We won’t have as much time for the handover of the homes and to see the local children enjoying the playground, but we won’t worry about that. We’ll be too exhausted to party anyway!
And so at six of clock in the evening the playground was completed. A couple of volunteers even kindly tested some of the equipment out, purely for safety reasons of courseJ
This evening also saw the big Haven’s got talent competition. We had Carpenters singing blur, masons in drag, riverdance by the special projects team and the clear winners, the caterers, who performed the Black Eyed Peas hit, I Gotta Feeling, headed by a giant Leprechaun with a pots and pans rhythm section.
The enthusiasm and sense of togetherness in the group is remarkable, when you think that you could go a whole day at home barely making eye contact with another human being. Clearly a common goal has brought us all together. We just need to find more common goals I guess.
So we’ll push on tomorrow as we hit the final stretch. Once volunteers complete their own task, they are transferred to another team, so I’m looking forward to trying something new tomorrow.
Ró
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