The service component of our trip is to teach English to Indian students between the ages of 3rd grade and 8th grade. The last day of our classes we plan to do a craft with the students. Each of us on the team had to come up with a craft idea. Mine, of course, had to be the most complicated; color a whole blank piece of computer paper with crayons usings lots of colors, paint the entire sheet with black paint, let the paint dry, then use toothpicks to scratch away the black paint and draw a picture! The colors will show through the black paint and look really pretty. However, we only have 45 minutes with the kids, so the paint wouldn't have enough time to dry. My solution = color and paint the papers myself before I leave. Welllllllllll not only does it take FOREVER to color 200 half sheets of paper, even with the whole family helping, I RAN OUT OF PAINT!!! The jar looked so big....now I'm praying that they sell acryllic black paint somewhere in Chennai! My parents might hate me right now - my mom's arm is probably ready to fall off from coloring so much, and my dad drove all over the town to try and find more paint. This is just so typical...I know you're not supposed to wait until the last minute to do projects, but really we've all pulled all nighters once in our lives right? A couple times maybe?
Looks like I'll be finishing this task overseas...
But I'm off to bed! We depart Buffalo for JFK tomorrow at 11:41am. Then we leave around 7:40pm to fly over night to London, then to Chennai. The international flight should take about 16hrs. Since I'm not in bed now hopefully I'll sleep on the plane. Goodnight! xoxo
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