Painting, First Aid, and more Painting

I spent half of the week painting. But the painting isn’t done so I have nothing to show for my work yet. I’ve done hundreds of paintings, even large scale, but I’ve never had to do one while standing on a chair to reach as high as I can for 3 days straight. For the first day I was frustrated with the tools and situation until I remembered what my old art teacher, Bart, told me in high school- "It is a poor artist who blames their tools." Since then it's been going a lot more smoothly. It’s a different sort of experience. Hopefully I’ll have pictures by next week..

On Thursday and Friday I taught 5 more first aid classes at different schools. At one of the schools the boys saw me coming and collected flowers for me. They're going good places someday. At the last school I taught at I’ve been teaching the teachers how they can do first aid for their students- here’s some picts of our practicing. I’m going to miss these guys. This week their community leader came to visit because we've already had an impact on the community. The wounds I cleaned as examples from 2 weeks ago are already healing. 

Practicing CPR

Practicing Spinal Injury checks

For the weekend I went back to Jinja to visit some friends, hang out with fishermen, and hit some new shops..  

Local Fish Market

Hanging out with fishermen

This shop was literally on an "island" in the middle of the Nile River. 

At one shop I saw a painting I was rather fond of and befriended the painter. He’s 18, a secondary student with 2 years left, and hopes to go to university someday and perhaps become a doctor if he can afford it. Here’s a portrait of me playing in the village :) 

Yes, I'm in this painting. 

I made friends at church too. The primary here was so cute and made me miss my Mbale primary kids. During class they gave out cookies and I gave mine away (because it was fast Sunday) and the girl sitting with me saw I had no cookies and broke hers in half and offered it to me. The kids here are genuine. The people here are the kindest I’ve ever met. The world has a lot to learn from Africa.