Mindu Street in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - The street was full of people and vendors selling their wares or cooking dishes that smelled amazing.  Unknowingly I set up next to a school and when the kids, elementary through high school, were let out I became the curious uncommon guy. It was a great opportunity to get to know everyone.  Being a Muslim school, the girls were dressed in their beautiful Muslim uniforms and the boys in their school uniforms.  The good thing about painting in public is that it is a natural conversation-starter; I must have had over 100 people checking on this painting over the course of painting it: school kids, teachers, taxi cab drivers, vendors.  I stand out here obviously because I’m white, but also because I’m painting.  As soon as the kids and locals began to see the painting unfold, they became good friends.  They wanted to take me out to dinner, take online lessons and show me Tanzania…