Sunday, November 24, 2013

A new take on grafitti

The boys' school pictures came with ready-made Christmas cards. Here is Wyatt writing his Christmas cards to his grandparents. 
Here is Wyatt's class picture. At first I was surprised and saddened at the obvious ill-will towards the classmates whose faces are scratched out. While Winston gets into fights on a daily basis, Wyatt seems to get along and has lots of people calling out and waving to him as we walk by.  The worst thing he has ever said is that one one boy is annoying. He takes Wyatt's things without asking and dumped out all of his white-out.  So, I was surprised.  Then, I was very briefly angry because we paid %^*# euros for those pictures! Wyatt is front and center.

You may remember my post about the grafitti at the university.  I was carrying on to my Spanish teacher about how depressing it was and how it doesn't hurt the government but only the students who have to study in such a dismal environment.  She had a different take on it.  She said that it was a form of protest and something that the students are proud of.  
So there you have it.  Wyatt defacing his class picture is an acceptable form of protest.


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