Tuesday May 5

These are the guys I've been working the most with. On the left are Benny and Ivan, the two TRW employees. The other 3 guys are the hired painters. Lionel is on the left, but I haven't been able to commit the other 2 guys' names to memory yet. We start the morning with prayer and sometimes a short devotion out of Our Daily Bread, then head outside to work. Benny and Ivan are born-again believers. The painters are like most folks on the island, for whom Christianity is more of a cultural thing. They're fine with the devotional/prayer time in the morning, though.
Today it was sprinkling off and on, there were big cumulonimbus clouds coming towards us, and it was debatable whether any painting would be done today. So this is a picture of the guys just hanging out and looking at the clouds.

The guys ended up painting a lower section of the tower. Since the weather was dicey, they were able to climb themselves down when it started raining at about noon. It was nice all afternoon, though, and they got a lot done.