Coming Soon!

A mural!

That's right, all week we've been working on a mural at Juvi. Jane and I thought that doing the mural on the wall inside of the boys dorm room would be nice since they spend so much time in there...and there wasn't much to look at.

So on Monday we arrived with pictures of murals and started our work...what we thought would be easily accomplished in a week is probably now going to take two, at least one and a half. We spent Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday scrape-scrape-scraping the old (very dirty) paint off the walls. We tried a power sander (a good try that didn't work out -- took off most of the plaster with it), but we mostly ended up using hand scrapers. With hip-hop/rap music playing in the background, our many hands made light(ish) work. And, finally today we were ready to plaster over all of the holes we (accidentally) made during our scraping!

This afternoon our plan is to head over to Juvi with a group of our fellow volunteers to paint the walls baby blue--the base color of our mural. So hopefully by tomorrow we will start sketching on the walls and get the mural going! The theme of the mural is music/dancing...it's partly inspired by a mural in my home town of Homer, Alaska. Each of the boys is going to pick a pose and we'll trace their silloutte onto the wall. We also have some bright colors for embelishments ...we're getting there!

Here are some pictures of our work thus far:

It got a little bit dusty in the room...


But it's all good -- we kept on keepin' on...


with a break for breakfast!

Kwaheri!