On the first full Monday of the trip, we went out to help a local group called Todo Mundo Feliz. Todo Mundo Feliz is a group focused on providing after-school care for young kids in Santo Andre and even taking care of them in general if they are really young. To help out, we were tasked with painting a couple of the exterior walls of the newly rented property, which was right next door to their permanently owned property.
Now, the task of painting a wall is typically quite boring, and from the start, it was, indeed, boring. Both of the walls were to be painted in a dark gray, which meant we couldn’t even paint anything fun to make the time more enjoyable. Though we did learn that the grey walls would be a base for the kids to leave handprints on, once they were dry enough.
One problem we had was a lack of paintbrushes, so those who wanted to help look after and interact with the children volunteered, but that didn’t solve the problem. So, after I took the above picture for this very blog, our now, Rev. Dr. McPherson, handed me a GoPro-like camera, and said, “figure out how to get this to work.” I soon figured out how to get it to record, and almost immediately turned it into a vlog, with internet brainrot vocabulary included. This actually helped with the energy, as well as some people using their phones to blast songs from the movie Rio, and progress on the walls started flying. Progress went so well that we managed to paint more than we were initially expecting to get done.
In the end, despite how mundane a task we were assigned, we had so much fun doing it. As well as helping a good cause in the process. In the end, we had fun doing something that mattered, turning the boring into one of the most exciting things we’ve done so far.
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