milk paint.

okay so alissa and i were introduced to a new term this weekend after we finished what we thought would be a fun painting 'party;' which i made the mistake of calling it that because there was no food or music and the people that we work with showed up looking 'smart' (the ugandan word for looking all dressed up and good) when they really needed to be in grubby clothes because we were painting for goodness sake! lejoaney! ('oh my goodness' in acholi) we were painting the outside of the clinic a base coat color before the kids between the ages of 10-17, who are patients at the hiv clinic come and paint a mural this saturday. it started out just alissa and i with a bunch of 'smart' looking ugandans breathing down our necks criticizing us from all sides: the way we painted, the way we poured the paint into the basins, the way we didnt mix the WATER-based paint with water, the way i called this work-day a party...the criticism never ended. ha so alissa and i had to give into some of what they were saying otherwise it would've never stopped so we decided to let some of the guys who were actually helping us paint add some water to the paint, which did the trick no more complaining and it actually saved us some money because we used half the amount of paint that we would had we not added water...it was after painting, which alissa mom kindly informed us that the proper term for adding water to water-based paint is milk paint.