Nine-year-old Camden Everett has been travelling the world leaving us all green with envy. From running through London traffic to scaling Mount Everest, the youngster has been embarking on whirlwind trips these past few weeks with chalk drawings. Wondering how? Well, all credit goes to his elder sister, Macaire Everett, who has been using their driveway as her canvas and has been recreating popular tourist destinations with just a bunch of coloured chalks! We speak to this talented teenager on how she turned her lockdown days into a world tour. By Amitha Ameen and Pallavi Phukan
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Can you tell us a bit about yourselves?
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How did you and Camden react when you learnt about the lockdown?
We were very sad because we couldn’t go to school and missed our friends. We were also sad because our family couldn’t travel during our spring break. It’s our family tradition to visit Amelia Island, Florida every March. We soon got bored at home.
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How did you come up with the idea of drawing chalk murals on the driveway? How easy or difficult was it to convince Camden to play muse?
How did your parents react when you revealed your first mural to them?
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Is drawing your hobby? Does Camden enjoy drawing too?
What do you plan to do with this project once school reopens?
How did this project help you bond better with your brother?
What was the last trip you took with your brother?
Where would you like to travel once the pandemic is over?
Schools are still closed in India. Any advice to the students here who are getting bored at home?
Our schools are still closed too and when the school session starts again, we will still be learning from home. My best advice would be — pick a hobby or activity that sounds interesting and try it. If you look back at my first chalk drawings, you will see they were so simple. I never imagined how much I would learn and how much fun we would have.
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