POST #1: Supplies.

First post. To start off, I will be in India for about 7 weeks this summer, and for about 5 of them I will be volunteering at Pathway (http://www.pathway-india.com/), an orphanage in Chennai, India, where I will be teaching art classes. I started planning this trip about a year ago, but it really started to get going in about February, when I started to create my curriculum. Between February and now I have met with Judy Beaney (one of my favorite elementary school art teachers), I have volunteered twice a week as a teachers aid in elementary school art classes, and I have developed my own art curriculum for Pathway. I leave on the 26th of June... in 9 days. Thank you to everyone who made this trip possible.

This morning mother and I finally went shopping for art supplies. About a month ago I made around fifty block prints of an Indian skyline, which I sold around my home town and to friends and family. Thank you to everyone who contributed!! I had about 450$ from the prints, and this is what we bought with it today:

-feathers

-felt

-yarn

-every type of paper possible

-paint and paintbrushes

-pencils, colored pencils, markers, erasers

-popsicle sticks

-paper plates

-model magic

-one large ruler

-pom poms

-foam pieces

-scissors

-glue and tape

-sparkles, glitter, googly eyes.

-felt