Monday, September 21, 2009

Summer days are come and gone......



Where, oh where, has summer gone? Oh yeah....

Study Work Intern Work Study Study Write Sleep....what?
Graduate
Celebrate
Work Work Work
Watch the church burn down
Have a Birthday
Wear a fun red dress
Work Work Work
Fly to Atlanta
Eat
Laugh
Drive (or maybe crash...) a golf cart
Swim with Savanna
Fly back to Boston
Work Work Work
Take a bus to Cape Cod
Play with kids
Catch a horseshoe crab
Eat ice cream
Take photos
Lay on the beach
Drive back to Boston
Work Work Work
Almost don't make the plane to the Dominican Republic
Fly to Santo Domingo
Help with medical clinics
Mix up your Creole, French, Spanish, and throw in some Italian
Take some more photos
Visit paradise on earth
Get to know amazing people
Go to the beach
Travel in an overcrowded taxi across the DR
Get stuck in Santo Domingo
Travel in a bus across the border to Haiti
Get nervous when the customs agent can't find your passport in the stack the bus attendant hands him
Be relieved when he finally does
Renew relationships with people and places
Understand the miracle that is soap
Photos Photos Photos
Love children
Say goodbye again
Cry the entire plane ride home
Back to Work Work Work
Watch 4th of July fireworks from the windows at work
Spend quality time with roommates and friends
Do A LOT of canning, bottling, and baking
Work Work Work
Visit Crane Mansion aka Castle Hill aka Pemberly in New England
Read on the beach
Conquer fears
Take some more photos
Work Work Work
Fly to Las Vegas
Drive to Utah
Visit family
Drive through Nevada
to California
Sing really loud and off key the entire way
Photograph the desert
Drive around California
Do some retail therapy with an awesome aunt
Find two pairs of shoes you've been looking for forever on sale
Meet new roommate
Drive through Nevada
to Utah
Visit more family
Drive to Las Vegas (Yes, Nevada again)
Fly back to Boston
Work Work Work
Go to the beach
Photos
Sacrifice body to save camera from hurricane waves
Sand in clothes, bags, cars, self, and camera
Buy lots of compressed air to clean sand out of camera
Work Work Work
Camp on the Boston Harbor Islands
Go kayaking in the early morning
Laugh a lot
Move roommate to Washington DC
Sightsee in the rain
Roadtrip back to Boston with other roommate
Listen to sappy love songs
Work Work Work
Say goodbye to other roommate
Get to know and love new roommates
Let go of an important relationship
Make zucchini bread
Work Work Work Work (extra shift)
Make a pie
Drive to New Hampshire
Find a cabin in the dark
Be told "you are particularly striking by firelight"
Win 'Best Presentation' in a Bake-Off
Row to an island
Kiss a frog that doesn't turn into a prince
Kiss a toad with the same result
Jump into a lake at midnight during a cold front
Scare cabin mates with a snake
Drive back to Boston
Take a nap
Work Work Work
Start scho........ wait.
Nope. No school. Hmmm.......
Maybe I'll-
Fly to Atlanta
Visit friends in DC
Take lots of photos
Paint
Bake some more
Go to a conference
Dance at a Masquerade...

Autumn is coming and it's going to be

AMAZING

Thursday, September 17, 2009

These Lines


All of these lines across my face
tell you the story of who I am,
so many stories of where I've been
and how I got to where I am.

-Brandi Carlile "The Story"





Friday, September 11, 2009

Santo Domingo



We traveled 6+ hours across the Dominican Republic to the capitol in an overloaded taxi, intending on catching a bus for another 8+ hour ride to the Haitian capitol of Port-au-Prince, only to find that the buses had been canceled for the day due to local government elections in Haiti. After finding a hotel, we dropped off our immense amounts of luggage and headed out to spend the evening wandering around the city.

A few snapshots from our stroll around Santo Domingo, including Catedral del Santa Maria la Menor- the oldest cathedral in the Western Hemisphere, and rumored to be the final resting place of Christopher Columbus; our commision of a street artist; the Domincan Republic Capitol Palace; and the Domincan Republic LDS Temple.