Today was one of those really productive days, where I didn't even leave my house.
After running around Zaqatala yesterday trying to find and build a contraption for screen printing, we succesfully brought it home last night, and used it today to screen print 64 t-shirts.
Yes, 64 shirts.
It is pretty satisfying, seeing 64 shirts neatly folded on the bed, all with the design I drew saying "Balakan Arts Camp 2011" printed on them. Some of them took on a horror movie feel, as the screen built up paint, and the letters look like they're running a little bit. It's ok, we've got some emo kids. But they do look great. White shirts with black print, and then Monday we'll tie-dye them. Them and my new cheap fake converse tennis shoes I bought at the bazar...the ones that say "ALL SPRT" Yeah, I don't know either.
The SPA Grant money is in. I've already had a few freak outs about whether or not I had misplaced money, but in each instance it turned out I forgot I had given somebody some cash for something or other. As of right now, I still know how to do math, and I haven't screwed anything up yet.
Materials have been purchased and sorted. I've gone through our boxes of donations to come up with project ideas (including God's eyes and friendship bracelets, hand puppets and picture frames), and then bought more stuff when needed (like for a variety of science experiments we are doing: mentos and coke, a volcano, etc etc).
Applications are in. We've got about 30 confirmed, and we're planning on a few day-of registrations, so we're hoping for 40 kids.
Tomorrow we're training our Azerbaijani counterparts. Bailey's put together a nice neat little training that I'm hoping people will show up to and will learn something from.
All that needs to happen now is for the kids to show up on Monday at 9am.
It's been a stressful week - but this is the kind of stress I thrive on, because at the end I'll know I have something to show for it. This camp is sort of like my baby...if it goes off well...well, I'll be one happy camper.
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