The Beginning of Goodbye

The picture is of a portion of the mural, this will be in the center at the very top of the wall. Its only about 1/4 of 1/3 of the entire project...... yup! its big!

Italia!!!!

My trip to taly is officially SOON! however, i still have not gotten my Visa back yet (pressure) all i can do right now though, is have faith in the system. 

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My birthday was last week, it was a very interesting attempt at a celebration. I did have about 10 of my closest and dearest friends all come out for the event. It was strange to have people from such different parts of my life in one place, but it showed me how loving and giving all of my friends are. I really appreciate how far people traveled to be with me. 

Such a strange age! i didn't expect this age to be as eye opening as it has. Their really is a lot to adulthood, and right now it looks like a big mountain of responsibility, but also excitement, because if i get that responsibility thing down then i can travel and have amazing experiences to positively influence what is to come later. Its here guys... life really has begun. 

Mural

Plugging along, we have had two more paint days, both went well, on one we got to meet an interesting group of ESL kids from Drexel. It was nice to meet some foreign exchange students as i am about to embark on a similar journey. I will be immersed in a culture without knowing the language. I assume i will face many annoyances, like idioms! i forgot how frustrating that inside joke between languages is. Also explaining things that we have that they don't, or vice versa. Talking about myself and what i do might actually be difficult, and force me to ask more questions when i am so used to answering them instead. 

The mural is 2/3 mapped out and we will be starting the last third next week. i hope that by the time i leave this summer that we will be all done with the prep work so that James Burns and his remaining staff can really get going on the finalizing painting process. i' m trying to remain as organized as possible so that when i'm gone things will be easy to find.