More Pictures

Two new posts? WHAT?!

Basically these pictures make me happy, so I'm posting them. I took them in New Hampshire yesterday and today.

Random Picture

I just came across this photo in my miscellaneous pictures folder. I found it somewhere random online, probably through stumbleupon, and unfortunately I never wrote down who took it. But it's pretty sick.

Day 18 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy

wooo freewrite! although once again i'm not sure what to write about. well Lindsay Lohan is in jail. supposedly. poor Lindsay...she was so cute as 8-year-old twins. well it's 9:30 in the morning and i can't think of anything to write about. i'm excited that i'm on day 2 of a 3-day work week - monday was a holiday and i'm taking friday off to go to Martha's Vineyard with people (we'll see how that goes...fun? relaxing? complete and total dramatic chaos?). clearly my thoughts are really exciting and blog-worthy right now. ummm...have a photo!

Day 11 - A Photo of You Taken Recently

This photo was taken yesterday at Nantasket Beach in Hull, MA. I went with Sarah (on the left), Neelima, and Charly. The water was cold and the sun was mostly behind clouds, plus my car almost died and I'm now really sunburned, but it was fun and relaxing anyway!

Day 10 - A Photo of You Taken Over Ten Years Ago

See the resemblance? :P

Day 9 - A Photo You Took

This is one of my favorite photos that I took, mostly because being there was so awesome, and because there's actually a story and some personal growth behind it. I took it from a motor canoe that was taking us across this river in southeastern Costa Rica. We had to cross the river (and many smaller ones on foot) to get back and forth to a BriBrí villiage called Katsi where we were volunteering at this tiny middle school. The BriBrí are an indigenous group that live in that part of Costa Rica...the village we were in didn't even have a high school. But that's another story. This picture is about the bananas.

Every day on this river, workers spend all day transporting bananas by motor canoe from trucks on one side of the river to trucks on the other. If they had a bridge, they could just drive them straight across, but unfortunately that isn't really the government's priority. These bananas end up in our supermarkets, and we never really stop to think about what they've been through. But it's actually really cool that there's a whole story behind such seemingly trivial things as bananas. Or at least I think it's cool. Plus it was just amazing to see the way people live in rural parts of the world outside the U.S. - it's pretty intense having grown up the way I did to think that there are so many people who wash their clothes and bathe in the local river and can't imagine living any other way. Mr. Nardie, my AP Spanish teacher and one of the teachers on the trip, said that an indigenous boy once asked him about our local river, and when Mr. Nardie told him we didn't have one, he asked how we bathed. He couldn't even comprehend when Mr. Nardie attempted to explain showers to him. Basically, being in that part of Costa Rica was a perspective shock, which is one of the reasons I love experiencing other cultures so much.

Anyway, if you want to see more photos I took, check out my Flickr! Yay!

Day 7 - A Photo That Makes You Happy

Yes, I know, it's not a work day. But I feel like posting anyway.

Credit: Ricardo González

This picture makes me happy. It makes me happy because I love Alex and Fairleigh, and because it brings back a memory of one of the most fun days of my freshman year. We didn't have class due to a nor'easter that dumped about 1.5 feet onto Haverford's campus, so Fairleigh, Alex, Josh, Maia, Ricardo, and I stole trays from the DC and went sledding on Barclay Beach. Then we found this random table under the snow and attempted to sled with it too. Playing in the snow is basically my favorite thing about winter. That and the prettiness. :)