Slideshow Photos

The school asked me to take one-hundred photos (random, candid, or posed) of my students for their graduation slideshow.

I took six.

Six-hundred, that is.

But hey, more for them to choose from.

Here are some of my favorites:

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They drive me bonkers sometimes but they sure are fun and adorable.

Trash

Monday night is trash night for the area I live in.  They do it a little different here.  They do have a garbage truck, but it drives down the street and stops probably every block.  Then, you go to it.  So on Mondays there are mobs of people every block waiting for the truck to come and they throw all their trash in.  So if you miss it...tough luck.

But they do make it impossible to miss because they play the most annoying jingle I've heard in quite a while.  On Mondays, all over the place, you can hear the garbage truck music...

...and it will forever haunt me as a plagued internal musical memory.

The Mission Experience I Never Had

I had a roach in my room.

Which is dedication on his work, because I live 4 flights up.  It's a tiring effort sometimes for me to climb those 54 stairs multiple times every day, let alone a roach.  But more power to him.

No really, more power, because it took me 45 minutes to kill that monster.

I was laying on my bed when I saw a black blob quickly move on the other side of the room.  I thought: "Maybe a little bug flew right by my eye so it seemed really big and far away...?"

No.  It moved again.  Yikes.

After spending a considerable amount of time trying to track down the beast, re-arranging the room and everything (mattress off the frame included), I finally found it in the corner, under my bed, half a foot up the wall.  Those things are seriously fast!

Different theories were shared on how to kill the villain...

#1: Church shoe...

            

#2: Bug Spray...

#3: Rain boot (with thin box extension)...

#4: Broom

The winner!?!...

#4

As my friend Kristi reminded me, there's a reason they say roaches are the only thing that would survive an apocalypse.

Scenic Bike Sites

I've been busy.

Real busy.

And these kids make me real tired:

"Yes, Evan.  Especially you."

But despite that all, I'm still having fun.  The other weekend I went on a 4-hour long bike ride.  Had no plan on going anywhere; just got on my bike and went.  Far.  I'm glad I did because I found lots of cool stuff.  (But I was by myself so had no one to take pictures of me so I'm not in any of them.)

I came across the Zhunan Green Light Sea Breeze Bicycle Path. 

So I took it.

So much green everywhere, as I've said before.

The following video isn't that exciting, but just shows the tall green grass and the wind blowing through it:

I found this surreal and picturesque area that was straight up out of The Secret Garden or something... 

...complete with a mini-bridge.

Pretty cool.

I kept biking along and finally came to a small opening in the bushes which revealed the ocean just beyond.  I was so excited (I had no idea I was that close to the ocean until I saw the opening...although I probably shouldn't be that surprised.  I am on an island after all.)

There was not a soul in sight for miles.  There was one car (above) but I saw nobody.

It was so awesome.  It felt like a hidden or secret deserted beach.

I loved this random, deserted (I checked, it was empty) beach house(?) sitting all by itself.

It was a really fun day.