The last two weeks have been the busiest and and the last few days have been the craziest. I have a lot to catch up on two of them is the mural painting activity and the most recent Taize prayer vigil.
When you're in the parking lot near St. Anne's Hall you can see a long stretch of wall. This wall separates Assumption from St. Paul's Hospital. 7 years ago the teachers of Assumption Iloilo proposed a solution to the vandalism issue that was present in the chairs and walls of classrooms. Thus the first mural painting contest of assumption Iloilo was birthed. It was a class project where the class artists and the students were to paint a mural that expressed the theme that was being asked in just one look. 7 years later, in the same year Assumption will celebrate it's centennial celebration, students will be again asked to paint. I like painting, there's something very...fullfiling? I don't know how to describe it exactly but there's just something very appealing in the feel of paint staining your hands, some satisfaction in seeing you clothes having accidental stains and colorful brushes of pastel colors (even if you know you have to use paint thinner to get them off). You sometimes don't expect what you'd get after mixing colors and spreading them in, sometimes, uneven brush strokes. when I paint, and probably when everyone else is painting, it feels special because I'm making something using my own two hands. I didn't do much other than help out with the painting but I'm really happy that I took part in painting that mural as a whole because while I was painting with my fellow painters we had a lot of laughs and I had a lot of fun even though it resulted me to going home late, having paint on my shirt and sacrificing a weekend.
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