SAISA Art 2024🇧🇩🎨

This season Art SAISA was in Dhaka Bangladesh, We had an all girls OSC group, and out of all of the schools only one boy came. In total 4 schools went and even though it was small I had a lot of fun.😝.  We left on March 20th at 6 am, and got back March 24 4 pm. Since we got to the school a day early we had the opportunity to go to AISD’s “open mic night” where students could sing and perform to the audience.

The first day of art SAISA we went to AISD and started working in our workshops, mine was water color. The instructor took my group around the school to take pictures of things we wanted to paint, I chose a water fountain in the schools courtyard. We then painted the rest of the day while getting to know our peers.

On the second day we got to experience Dhaka. The SAISA art group split into 5 teams and we went all around old Dhaka. We went to a mosque, a catholic church, a rickshaw painter, and an art gallery. My favorite part was the rickshaw painter because of how pretty the diffrent paints were and being able to see the painting in progress was very interesting. When we got lunch at the art gallery they gave us raw chicken, which ended up with me being hungry the rest of the day. During our time in Dhaka AISD was hosting a boys football and girls basketball tournament, so it was super cool being able to watch them play.

On the last day we went to the school and finished up our workshops, the school offered a pani puri man which was so freaking good I had like 3 plates.😝😬. After I finished my 4 paintings my friends and I hung around the cafe eating bagels, brownies, and date balls. (more like I was eating the date balls, nobody else liked them). We played a bit of basketball as we waited for the exhibition to start and then after the exhibition finished we had a farewell dinner and handed out S-pins.

Overall I really liked this trip, the weather was cold, there was an import store next to the hotel, the cafe was super nice, and the overall experience of being in dhaka was very educational, I would definitely do It again.😁