Habitat for Humanity: Building Trip #3

On the 16th of January, I went on my final building trip with the Habitat for Humanity group from ISK! We once again travelled to Kangemi to work on painting the Morningstar Youth Education Center. When we arrived at the school, I noticed how much nicer it looked compared to the first time we visited. Our work during the previous Habitat trip made the school look much cleaner, and I was happy that our work had made the staff and students of the school delighted. We immediately got to work. 

I, along with 3 other students, took on the job of painting the floors of the classrooms. There were 5 classrooms in total, and although we knew that we would not have enough time or paint to finish all of the rooms, we tried our hardest to finish as many as we could in the short amount of time that we had. Painting the floors was not a particularly tiring job, but the fumes of the paint were really having an effect on us! We took frequent breaks so we could breathe in fresh air, but this did not prevent us from getting a lot done. By the end of the trip, we had painted 4 of the 5 rooms completely. They floors looked great, and really brightened up rooms. We would have managed to finish the 5th room as well as we had time leftover but, unfortunately, the paint had finished! The students that took part in the Global Issues Service Summit travelled to the school this weekend, however, and finished everything else. 

This trip was very bitter-sweet for me. Although I was overjoyed with the work we had done at Morningstar, I was sad that I would never work with the Habitat for Humanity club at ISK again. I kept thinking about all the amazing experiences I have had with the club during the past 4 years, and I will definitely miss it. I really hope that I can become involved with Habitat for Humanity again in university!