Friday, June 27, 2008

Today we celebrated father`s day in the cultural house in Azacualpa. I metion this because the Salvadoran folkloric dance group that I joined two months ago danced for the lucky fathers. Even though I felt like something from the produce department in the supermarket I really enjoyed dancing. You can judge for yourself. Happy Father`s Day!!

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Long time no blog. Where to begin? Life is good. I just finished hosting a group of five people, two teachers and three students, from a charter school- Yes Prep- in Houston, Texas. Imagine nine days of six people, one small modest room-house, five meals a day, hands and legs covered in oil based paint, and a lot of conversation about poop. Needless to say it rocked! Our goal was to make the escuelita, little school, of Cuesta Marina a more inviting and lively place. Job accomplished. The six of us with five days to paint an entire school and two murals finished the task with grace and exactness. The process, which you can see by the pictures, was very cool. We first drew our farm mural on taped together newspaper. We then flipped it over and filled the backside with carbon- charcol. the ready newspaper and taped to the wall and with pencils we traced all the animals and the barn. This, for me, was a very cool process and surprisingly worked quite well. Although we had a time restraint, the final product came out beautifully. I could not have accomplished this on my own so my kudos go out to Alison, Dave, Elena, Mikhail and Armando. Thanks you guys. Here are some pictures of the group, Cuesta Marina kids and of course the murals. I will let the pictures speak for themselves. Enjoy!!