Goodbye NYC

In 3 hours, I'm hailing a cab and heading to the airport. Eventually, I am flying to Paris where I will connect to my short flight to Prague, Czech Republic. This is where I will spend the next four months. While I'm so excited and sure I will have a life-changing experience, I am also anxious. I love this city and since I moved here exactly (to the day) two years ago, I have not left for more than 3 weeks at a time. I also have an intense fear of flying to make the trip even more nerve wracking. I'm sure once I get there and settle in I'll have a great time but these past few days it has been a little hard to say goodbye to what I now consider my home. From brown bagging at the waterfront with people I love to the ability to order vegan meals at restaurants, I am going to miss a lot about this wonderful city.

























Hopefully I'll be able to post photos form Prague sooner rather than later but I'm sure the next week is going to be quite hectic.

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So a couple of weeks ago I bought a Yashica 124G at a flea market. It is in great condition and fully functional - and I got it for about 1/4 of the price that I would've paid otherwise. I ran an expired roll of Agfa Optima through the camera and while I'm still getting the hang of the camera, I'm pretty excited about it.

Quick trip to DC

This past weekend I visited my family back in the DC suburbs. It was a little weird seeing that I said my goodbyes- In a bit over a week I'm leaving for Prague for the semester. I saw my friend Nora who spent the last two years in Serbia and went to a concert with my brother Nick. Saturday night I saw a new DC band with Josh read from Revival and Justin.

Sander revisited

In this past Fall semester I did a multimedia project about my good friend Sander. I didn't post it here, well, for many reasons. Part of it was that I didn't feel it was finished. I still don't think it's quite there but I polished it up a bit and feel a little better about it. For those who don't know me very well, I decided to take on this project after my repressed memories from witnessing the accident came back in June of 2009. It's been interesting, frustrating, and at times fun to work on this project and overall made it easier for Sander and me to talk about what happened years and years ago. While Sander and I joke to make light of the accident, when it comes down to it, it was a terrifying experience that changed both of us and our friendship. Luckily the physical consequences were relatively minor (all things considered) but neither of us escaped unscathed. We are both also very tired of telling the story, so now we have this to do it for us.



Thanks to the Avery family for the extra photos from the hospital stay.