World Map, Hardcore

A couple days ago I decided I would help my neighboring volunteer with his third world map. The World Map project is usually an education volunteer project in which you pick a school and proceed to paint a world map on the wall so that Paraguayans can get a sense of what the world looks like other than Paraguay and Argentina, the limit of most Paraguayans. It would be an understatement to say this process is tedious. The first method involves painting the wall blue, drawing a grid in pencil and painstakingly using a book to blow up and redraw the countries grid box by grid box. The end result is a pertty, proportional map that takes &^$&$^* forever. In the case of this last map we decided to do the second method, known as the projector method. In this method you paint the wall blue but then instead of gridding you use a projector which depicts the countries straight on the wall and you can paint straight onto the wall. It is a little less accurate but much faster. You also have to finish the project in one sitting unless you know exactly where to replace the projector, at what angle and what focus. It sucks..... if it takes more than one sitting.... trust me. Anyway, so my friend and I decide that we will have a chill night together to paint and finish this world map in one night because its easier to do at night.  We thought we would start at 8 or 9 and end at 1ish. This is how the night actually went:

8:00 Arrive at Andy's house.
9:00 Finish eating dinner and begin preparing and mixing paints
10:00 Paints packed and bikes prepared to ride to the school a 20 minute ride away
10:30 Arrive at site and begin setting up computer, projector, and paints
11:30 Still setting up projector image and putting down paper under the map
(At this point I was pretty upset. I had expected to leave Andy's house when i got there at 8)
12:00 Realize that the projector is too far away to do good focusing. Blurriness is inevitable. Painting begins.
1:00   Painting continues.
3:00   Painting is still not half completed with much guessing work being done due to blurry as &^%& image.
(Frustration is unbearable.)
5:00   Frustration turn into feeling of hardcoreness as it becomes obvious that we will not finish before daybreak.
6:30   Sun begins to rise and hardcoreness peaks along with a beautiful vista.
7:30   With sun completely up, both Andy and I pack up and ride home. Map is 90% complete.
YATA!

All in all i felt hardcore and it ended up being pretty fun. Still wish we had started earlier as we ended up resetting up the projector at night again and were unable to create the same image. In consequence our world map is somewhat distorted but meh. Mission accomplished.