Be cool: paint a school.

Ok, if anyone has EVER thought badly about his or her school building, think again. Today we painted 3 classrooms (8 to go) in the local high school here and when I walked in, I was shocked. The walls are completely covered in graffiti from kids coming in and spray painting or simply writing random nonsense on the walls during class, etc. We are working with a local leadership club here and it is their project to repaint the school that they started about a year ago and are just now getting on with it. They spent some of their winter break patching holes in the walls, etc. but it is too cold to paint in the winter, so we are finally getting on that bandwagon and it will be done within the week! What a blessing it was to receive funds from the States to be able to finish this project. Their leadership club still had a lot of money to raise to be able to finish this project and we received donations from some people back home and now it's becoming a reality! THANK YOU!Here is a picture of the finished product.... I know, it doesn't look DONE, but we left the bottom portion of the wall unpainted because eventually, they are going to add molding along the midsection of the room and paint the lower half with an oil-based paint so the kids have a little challenge before them should they plan to write on the walls again. :) I hope it gets done before school starts again in the fall or else our painting will have been for nothing because the kids will just start over with their lovely art on the walls. Their mentality is that it's just normal to mess things up. They aren't that great to begin with, so what does it matter? This is a mentality that is set in many hearts here, as displayed by their other actions such as just throwing trash on the ground wherever and whenever they feel like it... I hope it will change. It will... One step at a time...