Painting an environmental mural in the mountains.

This past weekend, my environmental club and I --along with the help of two other PCVs and a Honduran artist/volunteer from Santa Barbara-- painted a mural at my school. It turned out to be a surprisingly fun project, though a lot of work. The theme was "conserving the environment" but from there, the kids had free reign. We worked the entire weekend and on Monday too and Im very proud of the final product. Lots of them drew a standard fare of birds and flowers and trees, but there was some critical commentary too: one kid drew a skeleton of a poached animal, another a fish with a chain around its neck. All in all, they worked hard and had a good time and are happy about how the mural turned out. The teachers also seemed pleased. In fact, the social studies teacher approached me afterwards about repainting the world map, a project left by the last PCVs in my site which has become quite worn away. There is some paint left over, so we shall see...