Art class for kids in my community

 

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.

 drawing of my host niece jailene