I forgot about Painting!!

In my last blog I forgot to mention that we would be painting the school, which is interesting because its what took up almost all of our time. Let me fill you in...
OKay so, I was elected the head director of the painting project, by which I mean I pretended to know how to paint stuff, and Hatch and Nibbs pretended to listen. Anyway, my nickname for the week was 'Painter's Son' and let me just say this, I represented Broadbent Painting hardcore... BY which I mean I was a perfectionist, and often had to remind myself that having walls with drips on them is not the end of the world...
But this experience was not so much about self-discovery. Rather, I gained a lot of insight into my father. Now, we all love Dave. He is a silly man, and his sense of humor is unlike anyone I know. But after painting for 4 hours straight, in an enclosed room, with no mask, I began to understand the secret to his goofiness. Paint fumes! Nibbs sang, Hatch danced, and I managed to dance, sing, and have an ongoing monologue... It was incredible.
Painting does not seem like a very exhausting activity. You move a roller, or pull a paintbrush along a board, and the paint sticks. And a few days later you've got a house with a fresh coat of paint on it... But it is not that easy... There are corners, and crannies, nooks and nodules, highs and lows, and it is all far from easy.
Painting is also very, very messy. At the end of everyday we would all be covered with splotches of paint. Sometimes they would appear in places that seemed impossible: in an armpit, in the middle of your back, on the inside of my hat. And how do you clean paint off your body when in Cambodia? Why Gasoline of course. And it works, incredibly well, though the gasoline fumes mixed with paint fumes is... Well, it was pretty bad.
Here are two pieces of advice if you ever decide to paint something:
1. Get different rollers for the different colors of paint. We neglected to do this, and as a result, the inside rooms (which were supposed to be white) ended up having a cloud-like appearance to them. It turned out well, and the patterns are actually kind of cool, but... we got lucky.
2. Make sure you buy the same color paint if you run out. Luckily, we finished the first coat of one room, before we had to buy our second bucket. The second room turned out to be an eggshell white, which also turned out to be kind of cool. But still, I wóuld recommend making sure you buy the same color.