Learning and Growing

For those of you following the progress of UPP Seattle, aka SUPP, you may have noticed that it’s been slow going. We’ve had some major delays with our community center out here, we’ve lost touch with our partners in Palestine, and we haven’t had much success with student recruitment.  All in all, it feels like a giant failure! But. But!

We have a few weeks left of our winter session and in spite of having zero contact with Palestine, our kids are gearing up for a series of spray paint workshops with which we hope to go out with a bang.

Some possibilities for ways we can improve in the coming weeks include partnering with a group in Scotland in lieu of Palestine, thoroughly documenting and posting our progress with our spray paint project, and planning to do it all again in the spring based on what we’ve learned from our mistakes.

Even though it hasn’t gone at all as planned, I’m excited to build on this tiny little foundation for future projects. Thank you to everyone who has been so supportive throughout this process. More posts coming very soon!