Leaving our mark

An unusual challenge came our way at the school - could we repaint the mural on the end of the building to represent a sense of community.  Thanks to Billy and Ethan for taking on the challenge.  Over to them to tell you how it happened......

On Wednesday whilst others were continuing to liven up the school with a fresh coat of paint, Ethan and I were awarded the special honour of painting a mural at the front of the school. We were informed of our task on Tuesday by the monks and administrators of the school. We were to replace the 3 existing murals with new ones that would convey the idea of a ‘happy community’. We spent the rest of the day coming up with designs that would exude this message. The following day it was time to get to work. At first we were very trepidatious as the existing murals were of a high quality that we couldn’t hope to match given that we only had a few hours to complete it. We were so pressed for time that we even decided to repaint one of the existing murals depicting a classroom setting. For the same reason we kept it simple for our third design and got the team to place their hand prints on the wall in various colours and have the school children put their own handprints on it. The most difficult of the three murals was the painting of a map of Cambodia with its national flag within it. It sounds simple enough but this was a surprisingly time consuming process. Although the project took longer than expected and our initial designs didn’t come to fruition Ethan, I, our team and even the students seemed happy with the final result.

Billy and Ethan


(Apologies for the ordering of the photos - I tried to get them in chronological order but the wonders of the site have decided to form their own random order.)













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