Adrienne, my new roommate, has been here for about two weeks now. After painting a nice base coat on the walls, creating a couch using the already built in base with a cut up mattress wrapped in a sheet, and massacring hundreds of cockroaches, Adrienne's house still need some homey touches. We decided to get a little creative and paint a baobab tree on her wall. After searching online for several images that inspired us, we finally chose one and began sketching.
Here is an image of the final product:
As Peace Corps volunteers, you learn to get creative and work with limited resources. We originally planned to head to Nampula to buy colored paint, but after finishing our sketching, both of us were eager to continue with the painting job. One of us joked about the idea of mixing our white paint with dirt from outside. After a few minutes, we both thought about how that might actually work. Adrienne experimented with a small amount first, then we tentatively applied it to the wall to see what would happen. Success! We quickly proceeded to add handfuls of dirt to our bucket of paint, creating a chocolate milkshake colored substance. Lacking paint brushes, we channeled our five-year-old side and embraced finger painting, receiving a nice hand exfoliation from the rocks and grains of dirt present in our dirt-paint. For the color accents and the sun, Adrienne first drew in colored pencil, then watered down the white paint and applied it over the pencil.
Here is what I have been up to the past couple days while searching for other things to do than grading exams or calculating final grades. Also, was a great way to pass the day when we had no electricity.
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