For me, I want

June 19th, 2008

When I’m passing out canvas or pieces of paper for class this is what I hear constantly: “for me, I want.” We worked on paintings and drawings for around 4 hours tonight. I kept hearing “for me, I want” so they could start on another piece. They never want to stop creating. Our acrylic painting lesson for tonight was using pattern and design with an animal as the focal point. Acrylic paint was really hard for them at first but they’re getting so much better. I had the younger ones drawing with colored pencils for free drawing, which usually just happens anyways. I had some reference pictures passing around for them to share too which had some interesting results.

This morning we did our wash, Cathy felt like she had to step in and help us out because she didn’t think our clothes would get cleaned properly. She was right, I am terrible at washing with my hands. She let us have the jobs of hanging out to dry and rinsing. We made Cathy and Massi egg sandwiches with eggs over easy and cheese, they had never tasted cheese before. They loved it. We interviewed one of the children here, Aadah who was home sick from school, Jah-jah (the one they call grandmother), and Massy(who helps cook and clean). Jah-jah and Massy both began to cry when we asked them about their past and how they had come to work in the orphanage. It was incredible to be close with them in that way. The kids started to dance and sing for us and I took advantage of this by taking video and plenty of pictures

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