mural

I'm sorry to imform you all that as of this moment I have failed to find a way to transfer my camera's pictures to the computers here. Hopefully I will be able to figure it out soon and show you some pictures of the mural, the kids, etc.

I can tell you that over the course of this week I have completed about one third of the mural. The layout goes like this: Their are a bunch of portaits of kids from different ethnicities in between kids doing things (one is in action, winding up to kick a soccer ball, another two are at their school desks writing, another plays with a dog) The kids follow each other in a circle which makes for the outline of the globe. I'll post pictures of it when I am in Italy if I cannot figure it out here.

I usually paint in the mornings, when school is in session. The kids call my name from their classrooms and give me thumbs ups, tell me they like it, or that I'm 'really good at drawing!' When they leave for the day, the ones from the orphanage give me hugs, no matter how much I'm sweating. It's precious.