Zach came to visit! Look what we did!

mural complete!

My buddy Zach came to visit this week. He’s a volunteer in the southern part of the country, but he’s making his way through Paraguay right now visiting volunteers. As we were passing the afternoon drinking terere, eating lunch, touring Valenzuela (and climbing up the church bell tower! shhhhh…secret) and just generally catching up, Zach looked at that wall and said, “That’s a really white wall.”

“You’re right Zach. That is a white wall.”

“Wanna go buy some paint?”

“OK.”

And that’s how it’s done. Zach’s very creative, with lots of experience building sets and doing artistic things so it was an excellent collaboration. And inexpensive. For a medium sized can of white paint, plus a tube of blue dye, and a tube of yellow dye that didn’t work much–just barely, some old dishwashing sponges and masking tape we created a piece of art.

The big white paper says, “Hi Mom!” because I understand Zach’s mom reads my blog from time to time. Hi to my mom and Zach’s mom. I’ll speak for both of us and say we miss you and love you!

P.S. That orange thing is MegaBalloon. Zach spends all of his PC allowance on balloons to play with at parties or to give to little kids, as he did with that one. There’s now a very happy two-year-old little girl and her older brother down the street.

I’ll write more of an update soon. There’s lots of share…more cooking adventures, a trip to Filadelfia in the Chaco, and just general being-a-volunteer things.

Love and peace to you all.