Progress

This is the most thrilling I can make myself look after a tiring 4 day week of student teaching, nonetheless, I'm happy. I have been waiting years to begin an important milestone to my future plan (or sketch). Although I'm not sure if teaching is what I want to do forever, it is an important experience that I need to have.

365 Project

365 Project

Recently, I’d decided that I would begin my Project the day of my college graduation.

That day seems monumental enough.

Seems.

I’m hesitant. Most of my hesitance is due to the fact that I don’t enjoy taking pictures of myself. Regardless that the picture are not necessarily of me, in a sense they will be. The pictures are of choices, places, people, etc that have come (and possibly gone) in my life. If it’s painful do I want to look back at the end and remember it? Do I want to remember the mistake I made that changed me for the better (or worse)?

I’ve heard others say, or I read it someplace, that people take pictures of things they don’t want to forget. I don’t need any help remembering anything I regret.

Then again, that’s just the idealistic realist in me. I’m sure May 8, 2010 will roll around, and I will start my Project with conviction. Unaware of the events to come that I’ll document, important or not. It'll be a good time to live what Emerson said "write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year."

We'll see.

New Orleans Service Trip

I recently returned from New Orleans. I went on a service trip and volunteered with several different organizations within the area that had different focuses. Overall the trip was amazing, I learned plenty, met amazing individuals, and was able to see a new place. I'm not going to spend time listing events and the introspective thoughts I've had, but I will share some of my favorite pictures that I took.



A corner cafe.

Shot of Bourbon St.

New Year's Eve
Hallway in a home where we did service work.
One of the many colorful houses in New Orleans. Some of the colors reminded me of homes in the Domincan Republic, and another individual said the colors reminded her of homes in Barbados.
Statue in the lot of an abandoned church.