I had a meeting in my community a couple weeks ago to plan
an art class for kids in the elementary school. To be honest the whole day
before the meeting I was worried and nervous that no parents would show up
since there is little to no parent involvement in the high school where I work.
Then don-don-don it started raining
right before the meeting was supposed to happen, and tico culture is notorious
for going on pause whenever it starts to rain. People stay inside until the
rain stops. However, when I got to the
school after donning my rain jacket and pants and rain boots there were a bunch
of smiling faces there waiting for me. I
was really happy that so many parents and their kids had shown up. It makes me
feel really blessed to be in the community I’m in that parents showed up
because I know that isn’t the case in a lot of the communities where other
volunteers are.
Any ways the art class is now a go! We’ve already had 3
sessions. It’s been great to continue
doing art with kids after volunteering most of college at drawbridge an art
group for kids who live in homeless shelters in Santa Cruz CA. We’ve been doing
projects that focus on using recycled materials. This week we made wallets out
of old milk cartons and the week before vases out of plastic bottles. I’ll try
to put photos of the projects up here.
