Day 7: A Cracker educating.

So yesterday I was  still working on the rock pile. I don't know if you know this, but there are many rocks in the desert, or at least in this desert. The wheelbarrow gets so heavy the it makes tracks in sand and they get deeper and deeper. So I had to devise a way to get across the road that was already there from the farm truck because the sane was already so soft. I found two pieces of corrugated tin and used them as a bridge. The mound that is in the center of the picture is rocks, too, and I've got to move them. But I use the momentum of going down to help propel the wheelbarrow. So I'm saving them for last.

Then I got to finish the evening with some miking of the goats. There are only four that get milked.

I got a little cracker on the other volunteers and made some sweetened sun tea. They use white sugar on the farm (quite a bit of processed stuff, actually), so the tea was the same diabetes making stuff that you get from any restaurant back home. But it was so good because it was brewed in the sun.

This morning I was back on rock duty. But we only worked for two and a half hours. Then I got to give an art lesson (Can I count this as professional development?). It was so much fun to teach such talented students. This was the first time in twelve years that my entire class got one, two, and three point perspective. It was difficult at first because there were many complicated ideas to develop, but with the help of everyone we got through it.

Then we broke for lunch.

The second half of the lesson will be to draw a city in three point perspective. I'm not making a lot of rules because I want them to be as creative as they want to be. The whole family got to participate, and some really had fun with the exercise. Rotem, the oldest girl sitting in the blue shirt, is so exact in her work. It is like a draftswoman is doing the drawing.

Tamar just wanted to keep practicing even though she gets perspective. It was funny to hear her say that we should keep practicing during the next lesson, but the kids said no way. I agree with them.

Here is Tamar hard at work with two rulers! Here is the youngest boy, and it was fun to watch him stretch the bounds of the rules of perspective. In fact, he combined one and three point perspective on the same drawing.



Shelby is a volunteer from Canada, and she had a lot of fun with this, too. She has grand ideas to complete her piece. We'll see. It was wonderful to hear her talk about the lessons and how she is now inspired to make art. Shelby had such a big smiles when she said it, too.

This afternoon is back to the rock pile. I've nearly got it defeated!