The Wanderer of Her Creator: Photos

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Thursday, March 19, 2009

More ASB People Pictures

Connor, Jena, and Yan on our way to local K-Mart

Getting some rest

Keith - my 'boss' up here at college

My friend Yan - she can cook really well!

I thought it may be good to reflect on my ASB experience since many people have been asking me. We went down to Gulfport - Orange Grove, MS for about 6 days. I have always enjoyed camping and this was an amazing opportunity to spend some time in plastic 'tents' and do some good in the community. After the first half of the semester, I was feeling quite drained of energy and good attitude and I was hoping that couple days of good old manual work would help me.

Here is what I learned that week:

1. Friends of your friends will most likely be wonderful people - Diana Tinlin, who is my friend Molly's roommate, is such a wonderful person. I was blessed to work with her in a group.

2. Angry man does more bad than good - When pouring a self leveling substance onto our floor, this man came to our house (he was the site mgr) to tell us how all we did was done wrong. His attitude made one of our team members cry, two of us were trying to comfort her, and the result? All the leveling stuff in our bucket hardened. This man was still determined to use it all and after his attempt to pour this now quite thick stuff on the floor, it became even more uneven than before. Way to go. Here is what happened to the rest of the substance - it became rock hard :)

3. Don't try to wash an oil based primer from a brush or bucket with bare hands - mine became very white for several days after this attempt.

4. Razor works surprisingly well for removing oil based paint from your hands - this I found out after #4 happened.

5. Southern accent rocks!

6. It is possible to miss someone other than my family while being on a trip.

7. When God is in people's hearts, they are beautiful - the man whose house we worked on was so wonderful. You would expect him to be bitter after having everything damaged by the storm, but he was so grateful and happy man!

8. Envy is quite unappealing - we had this small dispute over some groups going to New Orleans and others not going. I so wanted to go, and now I feel bad after seeing how some people can react to having less than others.

9. I can kick soccer ball with either foot and get the same result :)

10. God was there with me - when I watched the sun set and rise, spent time alone or with friends, He was there.

11. I want to go back and also do more service here on campus.

So, how about some more pictures now?

My group's leader Kris

My group - Diana, Shami, and Mike

All of us at Sonics

Here is my 'podmate' and friend Jena

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Avenue Champs-Elysees

It seems to me that there is no need to elaborate on the description of this avenue. It is the beating heart of Paris, where you can find clothes worth thousand euros, food, but also the Arc de Triomph on one end and Louvre on the other.

Saturday, July 12, 2008

One for Boys, One for Girls...

Chocolat, Chocolat, Chocolat...

I know that I will be going of the sequence (I mean the Paris sequence here) but I thought that I would have to share my photos with all the chocolate lovers! With our class, we went to visit a Chocolatier (the one who makes chocolate) and believe me, it was unbelievable! Above is the process, below the results.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

La Defense

La Défense is a major business district for the city of Paris. The district is at the westernmost extremity of Paris' 10-km long Historical Axis, which starts at the Louvre in Central Paris and continues along the Champs-Élysées, well beyond the Arc de Triomphe before culminating at La Défense.
Around its 100-metre (330 ft)-high Grande Arche and esplanade ("le Parvis"), the district holds many of the Paris urban area's tallest high-rises. With its 77.5 acres, its 72 glass-and-steel slick buildings including 14 high-rises above 150 metres (490 ft), its 150,000 daily workers and 3.5 million square metres (37.7 million sq ft) of office space, La Défense is one of Europe's largest Business Districts.

La Grande Arche

Stairs

Garden from the future

Thousands of windows (Bill Gates would love this ;)

Paris - un reve modern

Montmartre

Montmartre is a hill which is 130 metres high, and also the name of the surrounding district, in the north of Paris. It is primarily known for the white-domed Basilica of the Sacré Cœur on its summit. The other, older, church on the hill is Saint Pierre de Montmartre, which claims to be the location at which the Jesuit order of priests was founded. Many artists had studios or worked around the community of Montmartre such as Salvador Dalí, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh.