Above: House in Tigennen right along the water.
Below: The Bunford’s (don’t we look good!?) in the Tigennen house.
Above: The team painting the house in Tigennen along with the Haitian builders.
Below: Our favorite house in terms of location (on the water) and colours. Cinthia feels like it’s very close to being the Guatemalan flag, if only it had a quetzal in the middle.
Above: Another house in Tigennen, the Haitian builders showed us we don’t need “real” ladders, and we can save lots of time by standing on the rafters.
Below: Jileh (the groundskeeper) getting us coconuts as a way of thanking us for painting his house. This is the 3rd time the homeowners have given us coconuts!
Above: Coconuts are delicious, but that doesn’t mean you should stop working!
Below: Esther’s house (one of the cooks). It started out as orange & cream, but the orange wasn’t mixed well and it looked more red than orange. In Haitian culture, red = voodoo, hence the colour change.
Notice the girl on the right….some people just enjoyed watching us paint.
Above: For some reason, I always ended up with the most paint on me (see the shirt?) since it’s oil based paint the only way to clean it is to use paint thinner, or in a developing country where they don’t have paint thinner, you use gasoline.
Jean-Renee was always ready & eager to clean the paint off of me. When finished, he’d pass me the rag & gas and said “maddam”, suggesting I help clean the paint off Cinthia.
WHAT’S NEXT?: Tomorrow (August 28), our team will be leaving the place we’ve called home for the past 4 weeks at 4-5am. We’ll arrive at the Port-au-Prince airport and from there we’ll be flying to Dublin, Ireland via JFK. In Dublin we’ll be attending The Awakening which is a worship conference & reunion for past & present World Racers. We’re not sure what’s planned for us after The Awakening, all we know at this time is that we’ll be somewhere in Europe (probably Eastern Europe, but we really have no idea at this time). We’re excited to see what God has in store for us & we’ll keep you informed along the way!
