Art Week beginnings

Friday night we stayed in Kpando. Karly and I would now reside with the rest of the volunteers, leaving the Glover home. Rejoice, Forson Glover's wife, was so good to us during our stay with her family. She even made us delicious rice milk in place of tea in the mornings when she found out that we don't take tea. My favorite treat was hanging with them in the evenings... they are such a kind family. In their home, we got to spend leisure time with Albright and Kelvin who both attend Bishop Forson School, stages 5 and 2(?).

Saturday all the volunteers met with the teachers at Bishop Forson School Campus. Our time was spent getting acquainted with one another as Beth facilitated a conversation regarding some of the challenges they have faced and were seeking help with during out time there. Beth did an excellent job, of course, creating a productive discussion among local teachers and volunteers.

Following our discussion, we congregated under the mango tree for lunch. Red-red and dried kasaba... so good.

Monday was the start of Art week, "Painting Possibilities," which was the event put on by the 16 volunteers. Classes were prepared by many of the volunteers to offer the students at the Bishop Forson school an opportunity to discover talents and abilities they had yet to experience in themselves. These classes had objectives that included students creating customized wearable art, wire sculptures, paper mache, haiku poems, video editing, animation tools, music, geodesic dome construction, and kite making.

While all plans were not executed quite as we expected, we learned to be flexible and enjoy the unique situations we found ourselves in. Each of the objectives were met, despite the need for change in how we reached them.