Background painting in Kibera

Saturday, November 17
This morning a group of us took the bus down to the primary school in Kibera where Erin’s internship is because the kids there are performing a play for Christmas. The school wanted Erin to help paint the background for the play, so she recruited Lisa and I, the 2 art people to help draw this background. We spent all morning and a good portion of afternoon painting Joseph being presented his coat of many colors, him falling in a pit, and him talking to the Pharaoh. It was a lot of fun, a rainy day, so we got pretty dirty-Kibera is muddy even when it’s not raining and the backdrop turned out great.
It’s fun getting involved with what other people are doing at their internships, but also stresses me out about my ownBad news about my internship at the GoDown, it kind of fell through because the supervisor for us resigned or something, I don’t know all the details, but it sounds like we can’t really do anything until January for it, and even then we’re not at all sure what we’ll be doing. No one seems really eager or willing to help or to help us develop a project with a specific focus. I’m going to talk to our supervisor at the university about it, but it sounds like we’re kind of on our own to come up with a solution.