Photography

So this semester I enrolled in a photography class to help slim out my general ed. load, and to hopefully take some awesome pictures and learn how to develop them. We have had a few assignments since school started, and so far I love it. Our first assignment was called "Scavenger Hunt", and my film ended up being blank. Since it was blank, my teacher told me that I could just go around and take pictures on my camera of anything I wanted just so I could get a feel for the camera and learn kind of how to use the different things on it. My camera is a 35mm camera, and I can only use film that I can develop on my own. For this assignment though we got to take it to a Walgreen's and have them develop it for us. I just finally got this assignment back today and figured I'd share a few of the pictures that I took while I was experimenting with the camera. I took a variety of pictures and enjoyed playing around with the camera. I only hope that my next assignments will be better.

Here we go again...

WELP, its been quite a long time since I have updated this thing. A lot has happend in the past
few months.


I moved into a new apartment with a girl named Amelia Paccamonti on June 30th. So far things are going great!! Our apartment is a little ghetto, and we get nervous sometimes, but all in all its been amazing. I couldn't ask for a better roommate!!



I went on an awesome vacation with the Meiner family (aka, my boyfriends fam) and it was a blast!! I'm not even joking when I say that it was probably the best vacation I've ever been on. We went to Lake Sylvan, Minnesota for a week and a half and spent all that time on the lake. I learned how to ski, although I was not good at it at all, and got to jet ski & tube a lot. Jealous yet??




Two weeks after we got back from vacation, I started back at school.....here's where it gets boring. I'm going full time again this semester. I am taking Math 96, Biology, a Religions course, and Photography (my fave :]) So far it isn't going to bad. My classes aren't TOO terribly hard, but who likes school?........no one.

I am still working at the El Paso Golf Club as a waitress/bartender. As the summer went on I started to bartend almost full time, and so far I love it!! I like learning how to make new drinks, and feeling more responsible :).

NIU

I went to NIU in Dekalb last weekend for my best friend Kelly's 20th birthday. Everything from the ride there, the ride back, and everything in between was lots of fun. There were a few moments throughout the night that made me a little angry, but overall I had a great time with a few of my besties! :) I went with Leslie, and we made lots of stops on the way there. She picked me up around 4ish, then we headed to El Paso to get gas, subway, and pick up something from Kelly's house that her mom wanted us to give her. Then we headed to Minonk to go to Pop's, which is a place full of all kinds of candy!! We had to take a couple of detours on the way there because of construction but we made it. Then we finally headed on our journey up to NIU. It didn't feel like it took as long as usual, but when we got there we headed up to Kelly's room and started getting ready. Leslie's sister Lauren met us up there, and she braided my hair on the side while we were all getting dazzled up. We pre-gamed in Kelly's dorm, then finally headed onto the frat AKL. Leslie brought her video camera so it was a lot of fun filming things, and having stuff to watch so we could remember the next day.

Ashlie's Birthday

Tonight I went out with a few of my best friends for Ashlie's birthday at Logan's Roadhouse. It was a lot of fun, and veryyyy filling. It was fun to finally get with some of my girl friends again since I haven't really done anything besides party with anyone for a while now. I'm finally starting to work again out at the Golf Course, and I am so excited about it because that means I'll be making some moolah!! It's a little weird because I haven't had to situate my schedule (not that I really have one but..ya) around work, but it's a part of life and I'm just gonna have to deal with it ;)

today was really fun and eventful. I woke up, and missed my classes......imagine that. sleeping is just so much more fun. when I woke up, I got ready, and headed to Pontiac for an eventful day. When I got there, I picked up some McDonalds for Michael & I, and headed to his house. When I got there, he told me that the clubs were in Rhys' (his younger brother) car at the High School. We decided to go get him out of class and get them. After we waited in the office for 10 min. for him to get out of P.E. (which btw we saw some weird people getting into some trouble) we finally got the clubs and headed to the Elk's to do some golfing. We decided to golf on the back nine, and lemme tell ya................I was really bad. Golfing apparently is just not my thing. It took me many times to hit the ball, but Michael was a great teacher and gave me lots of good pointers that I will possibly use next time I decide to humiliate myself by golfing.

After we were done, we headed back to his house and I slept for a while while he watched some TV, then we got ready for our delicious cook out. I had steak, which I couldn't cut, so Michael cut it for me. It was some amazing steak and even though im not too fond of steak, I still thought it was pretty good. His family and I, plus his sister Emily's fiance, Ryan, played an interesting yet funny game of telephone for about half an hour. When all that was said and done, me, michael, emily, rhys, and william watched some home videos, which seems to be something that we tend to do often now a days. It was a very eventful and busy night, but it was so much fun, like always. His family is almost like my second family and everytime i go over there, I feel more and more comfortable around them.

When I left, I went to visit some of my old friends for a little St. Patty's Day celebration and it was really fun to finally get to see them again. All in all, today was a great day!