Messy Thrilling Life.

2009-11-28T21:30:00.001-08:00

Peru or Colorado? ayudame...

40 Dogs

2009-11-28T21:28:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXE2CQXygfQ

Well if I spell it out, if I get it out,
Will you hear me when I tell you about
What I have to say, before it gets too late?
It's not as easy as I said it'd be,
But there’s something right about you and me,
Something right about you and me.

Well you’re the color of a burning brook,
You’re the color of a sideways look from an undercover cop in a comic book
You’re the color of a storm in June,
You're the color of the moon.
You’re the color of the night, that’s right,
Color of a fight - you move me.
You’re the color of the colored part of The Wizard of Oz movie.

We're like Romeo and Juliet,
We're like 40 dogs, cigarettes,
We're like good times that haven’t happened yet but will.
And I can tell you where we're gonna be
When the whole world falls to the sea:
We’ll be livin’ ever after, happily.

All the boys taking you for granted,
Tell you what they want with their eyes all slanted.
I don’t like the way they look at you,
I don’t like the way they talk to,
I don’t like the way they talk to you.
I wouldn’t let 'em talk to you like that.

Put 'em up high, reach for the ceiling.
Tell them that I'ma walk, damn it, I'm real,
And it ain't no crime, it's just dreams we’re stealing -
Anything to get more of this feeling

You take the high and I'll take the low,
We'll get there before you know.
We ain't got no time to waste,
We got too much life to taste.

We're like Romeo and Juliet,
And 40 dogs, cigarettes,
We're like good times that haven’t happened yet but will.
And I can tell you where we're gonna be
When the whole world falls to the sea:
We’ll be livin’ ever after, happily.

Sometimes you remind me of a moonbeam,
On the ghost of a moonbeam out on the beach,
Down by the coast, slip into Manila,
Like the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

Come out tonight, come out with me, baby.
We'll throw the careful into the crazy,
Turn the sky black into a sky blue,
Turn the close shave into a hoo-hoo.
What I say is true, make a fire, gotta burn a few,
Make a fire, gotta burn a few,
We can do what we want to do.

We're like Romeo and Juliet, 40 dogs, cigarettes,
We're like good times that haven’t happened yet but will.
I can tell you where we're gonna be
When the whole world falls to the sea:
We’ll be livin’ ever after, happily.

2009-10-20T13:33:00.000-07:00

Christ in you. He is all you will ever need. You can't keep entering into the lives of kids whether the circumstances are hellish or whether the pastures are green unless Christ lives and dwells in you. It is a fact that we are broken vessels at best. We are flawed folks who have been called to something epic. Christ's epic story is what we've been called into. -Encouraging words that I needed to hear today from a good friend Glenn Austell

2009-10-20T09:27:00.000-07:00

I'm only posting this because I wrote it in the library and my tech e-mail is not working right now so this is the only way I could keep it ...its for span. lit. dont get to excited haha

Arte Comprometido y Arte por el arte

Kate Powell

Un hoja a doble espacio. Explica la diferencia entre los conceptos “Arte comprometido” y “Arte por el arte”. Incluye por lo menos una cita de un autor perteneciente a cada una de estas formas de arte para apoyar tu explicación.

Diferentes escritores escriben con diferentes motivos. Algunos escritores escriben con el motivo a el arte “no tiene que tener un fin pragmático o utilitario.” Esta forma de escribir se llama arte por el arte. Un ejemplo de arte por el arte es la colección de libros Twilight. Si no es obviamente are con un fin docente o arte comprometido entonces es probablemente arte por el arte. Arte por el arte es solamente para el entretenimiento. Otro motivo sobre escribir es para decir de la condición humana. Esta forma de arte es arte con un fin docente. Un ejemplo de esta forma de escribir es el libro clásico To Kill a Mockingbird del autor Harper Lee. Usted puede ver que es arte con un fin docente cuando evoca sus emociones para la humanidad. Otro motivo sobre de escribir es arte comprometido. Algunos escritores tienen una obligación moral de “poner su obra al servicio de una causa social o política.” Un ejemplo de esta es la poesía de Pablo Neruda; cómo el poema “El Monte Y El Río.” En este poema Neruda hablaba sobre la condición de su gente y decía, “Sufrimos, Ven Conmigo.” Que separa esta poema de arte con un fin docente es la llamar a acción “Ven conmigo.” Este poema no es simplemente para informar pero también es una llamada a la acción. Yo admiro a escritores quienes escriben sobre casos que a ellos les parece sumamente importante.

2009-07-05T13:57:00.000-07:00

In memory of Krissy and Daisy. They were awesome companions and sisters for 14 years and they will be missed.
Krissy was the best dog a girl could ask for.
Daisy always knew how to cheer everyone up and make everyone laugh.

2009-07-05T11:56:00.000-07:00

Santa Maria Novella
Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore and Brunelleschi's Dome

The Leaning Tower of Pisa!

Pisa, Italy... In the field of miracles

Cinque Terre- my favorite place in all of Italy
So between Manarola and Vernazza we met Debbie, Todd, and Georgina. They were from Wisconsin and were so giving and kind! After hiking for a while with us they treated us to a delicious lunch on top of the village of Vernazza. We had octopus and squid and spaghetti, and ALL KINDS OF DELICIOUSNESS! Debbie, Todd, or Georgi if you're reading this we miss you so much and I feel so blessed to have met you all!
Our last day in Cinque Terre Elise and I decided to hike to all five villages and it was exhausting but beautiful and totally worth it! (Monteroso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore)

hmmm about five shots of espresso in Vernazza before we began our final day of hiking
boo boos and cankles from hiking
after a LONG day of hiking
Elise and Elizabeth

this guy started shaking this bridge and I laughed but I was screaming inside haha

Via del Amore : )

our hike the first day through the first three villages: Riomaggiore, Manarola, and Corniglia
Riomaggiore- The village in Cinque Terre we stayed in
Monaco
our awesome new friends from California: Leah, Peter, and Ryan
Ryan was a great fourth roomie in Nice...we miss you Ryan!

2009-06-29T09:21:00.000-07:00

ahh beautiful Nice...this is where I decided that I am deff. a small town girl.
Nice- Iron Man Triathlon

Here is where our journey turned into a ROLLER COASTER....here is our day after we left Paris: 7:20 am- woke up at St. Christophers hostel in Paris ate breakfast and headed to the Subway by eight.

9pm- Left for Limoge and sat in the lounge car w/out reservations…stowaways : )

9-12pm- watch obnoxious teenagers make out for three hours haha (seriously people here need to learn how to GET A ROOM)

12pm- arrived in Limoge and cant get ahold of Emily

2- figure out how to head TOWARDS Cannes- run to the train (again without reservations) sit down by a stranger and were off.

3- start talking to the straner next to us- his name is Merlyn Jackson and for the past tow weeks he’s been a Tour de’ France groupie and he’s ridden through the Pyranees mountains right before he got on to Paris and then our train. He’s from South Africa formerly an accountant but after he did really well with that he decided to open a bike shop (his dream) now he has a huge clintel bae and is doing what he loves. He got off in Toulouse and we stayed on till around 8pm.

8pm- we arrive in Nerbonne and RUN across the street to an overpriced café for some food

9:09pm- on the train to Marsailles played gin n rummy/ slap jack/ egyption rat screw with some French guy who liked girls with green eyes haha

12am- arrive in Marsailles and get on the train to Toulon (still noblody has stamped our passes- and we haven’t payed) Met a guy named Emile from Nice. Gave us his card and told us to call if we ever ended up in Nisse and needed anything.

1:30 am Arrive in Toulon hoping to get on a train to Cannes to get to the hostel that we planned to check in at, at 11pm. Right when we arrive we find out the next train there leaves at 6:09am. Immediately after that we met a Canadian named Chris Donald. Chris is doing work exchange for Organic farms in France, to improve his French and meet new people- we ended up in a wating room area where more Americans show up waiting on the same train in the morning. Lia, Peter, and Ryan: they are law students from California who go to University of the Pacific….they are traveling a bit before they go take classes in Austria.

1:45-2am- A woman comes in the waiting room and tells us the train station is closing and we need to leave and it will open back up at 5a.m

SO the seven of us (me, elise, Elizabeth, chris, lia, peter, and ryan. ) at 2:00am after traveling for 17 hours straight head to the pub across the street to laugh off the ridiculous day that we all had. (That was the first beer I have EVER enjoyed in my entire life by the way- he said it was Belgian) So we finished one round of beers and a local guy bought us all another round. Around 3:45 am the pub closed.

3:45/4am- We find the town square (all of us a bit tipsy by now and in the tiniest of tiny towns) get out the cards and straws we tok from the pub and play one intense game of spoons.

5am- The train station opens and we go inside all of us WORN OUT by then because we had been up for 21-22 hours by then. So we crashed for about an hour before we part ways with Chris and hop on the train.

6am- Were on the train and we had heard so many good things about Nice and LOVED our new found friends from Cali so we decided to join them instead of going to Cannes. We lucked out and got into their hostel around 9am, changed, and headed to the beach after buying some fruit and coffee from a local market. We get down to the beach and SURPRISE! Ironman triatholon is in town! We found a spot on the beach with some loud house music in the background from the triathalon. Anyways, we layed out stuff down and ran into the Mediteranean which is freezing/ refreshing/ amazing! Then we layed down on our towels and CRASHED!

1pm- We’ve left the beach now and the six of us are in a beautiful park with tons of fountains and I’m finally finished writing this novel. Peace!
Chris Donald- Canadian we met in the train station...thank you Lord. Otherwise it would have been three girls in a city stranded alone for the night. Anyways God provided us with 4 awesome people to hang out with that night.
on the way to Limoge..or so we thought

Check, Check, Check

Eiffel tower during the day-check

gin rummy under the eiffel tower at night-check

strolled across a beautiful bridge-check

chillin in the palace gardens of Versailles-check

a day at the Louvre-check

Notre Dame-check

Being dissapointed by the lack of gargoyles at Notre Dame-check

Chocolate Eclaire-check

Running through the rain-check

Getting lost in the subway-check

Moulin Rouge-check

Gin rummy with a cute greek guy-check

Reading Jane Austen's Persuasion on the steps of Sacre Coure -check

Met AWESOME people- check, check, CHECK

Eli and Karen Elizabeth...two coolest people in Paris
playing cards at St. Christophers (hostal in Paris) with our new Greek friend Eli
The Moulin Rouge!

Roxannnn You dont have to put on that red light!

Sacre Coeur

our little home away from home in Paris (hostal Tulipe)
Best pizza EVER.... I basically ate a bakery while I was in France. It was worth is.
Dome Churen- where Napolean's burried

Notre Dame

The Mona Lisa was way smaller than I expected...

Sculpture Montage!

the Louvre

Eiffel Tower! we played gin rummy under it all night long...so fun
Palace gardens

Palace of Versailles
baguette we snuck into the palace of Versaille

lounging in the park
outside the louvre
the opera house

The most ornate bridge in the world...I honestly dont remember the name of it right now but it was perrrty

2009-06-23T10:42:00.000-07:00

Me and Leah (another cousin)
Swiss cows make yummy cheese and chocolate
These fountains are all over Switzerland
GIANT SLUG!
Lavender grows everywhere!
Village flag, Swiss flag, Zurich flag

Vineyards
wild raspberries delicious
our little gnome friends
The village of Weininger...one morning Elise and I took a hike and made a few stops on the way
Elizabeth and Silas
Playing Spoons
Elizabeth and Urs
El Todo Mundo

Lucerne

Uncle Urs and Aunt Susan

Glacier!
just the view from the restaurant...no big deal
This is Marcel- AWESOME, hilarious guy that took us to the ghandalas and treated us to a traditional swiss dinner

Elizabeth and I
Me and Aunt Susan

Ghandalas to the top of a glacier

Urs and Titus

Me and Titus (my cousin for those of you who arent in my fam)

on june 21st Elizabeth and Elise arrived in Zurich and we were reunited after a long few months apart...I love my new traveling companions
Zurich

Switzerland!

Sagrada Familia Church by Antoni Gaudi
Alicia and I freaked out because some spanish guy tricked us into getting really excited and thinking this is where Barcelona won the world cup last year..... it was a municipal city soccer field

Guell Park... brought to you by Antoni Gaudi

Gaudi building in the background...we sprinted around Barcelona in the six hours we had there and saw most of the buildings eventhough only got to see two of them through the bus window.
sheep head!

Cow stomach..delicious
a nice big pig head yummm

eel : )

The Boqueria- outdoor food market
On our way to Barcelona for the day

Princesses in front of the castle
This is where Walt Disney got his inspiration for the disney castle!

Brad and Carol Ann were like an extra set of parents on the trip...They were awesome!
Roman aqueducts in Segovia
Cathedral in Segovia
French chandelier

This is my teacher mario...he's not very patient

our favorite noodle place in Madrid
Atocha train station...back to where we started in Madrid
at the Reina Sophia- modern art museum...we got to see Picasso's Guernica

Palacio de Escorial
chateau garden

Toledo is known for their brass work in jewelry

The cathedral in Toledo...a few of us went to catholic mass here on the holiday for Corpus Christi
some little girls first communion
when we went to Toledo they were celebrating Corpus Christi
Toledo

me and abel
me and daniel
Megan, me, daniel, pivon
Kellen and Daniel
last night in Sevilla : (
chillin with the family on the patio
view from the patio
Morro my spanish puppy
Pilar...Little Pilar...me...Lucas: My host family minus the two brothers
my room in Sevilla

2009-06-08T10:26:00.000-07:00

Life is about always taking time to relax and collect your thoughts... I'm good at this clearly.

In Lagos I tried swordfish..DELICIOUS and this it was red somethinorother also Delicious
he was really proud so he gave it a kiss haha
This is a local fishermen who wanted to show us his latest catch (an eel)
I know this is wrong sorry but I want to remember it..sorta

we randomly ran into a Portuguese water dog...dog show! This is the breed Obama just got

2009-06-08T08:53:00.000-07:00

This is Tony my kayaking buddy...he didnt do much but he was hilarious and Australian so I didnt mind

kayaking in the Atlantic Ocean through the grottos...amazing
Titanic and the iceberg

Daniel an I
Kellen an I

Cliff hike
there are a million little beaches to choose from depending on where you decide to climb down

people keep asking if were sisters so we finally gave up on this trip and started telling them yes
random statue in the middle of Lagos

free weekend so I went to Lagos, Portugal
This is a maze and I'm actually jumping really really high right here
fishing boats in Rodilla - the town where Columbus sailed from
model of the Santa Maria
monastery in Rodilla
bath tub... I want one like this someday!

Megan and I
top of the Cathedral
the view from the top of the bell tower

The Hiralda Cathedral in Sevilla
The remains of Christopher Columbus

had a picnic here
Plaza de España

Moroccan market
some people decked out for church...I wish we wore pretty hats like this one

Gypsy caves! the outside of the houses are really just a front b/c its a cave on the inside..crazy
fruit market

cleansing fountain
Arabic architecture is all about the inside

Albaicin- oldest Arabic barrio (neighborhood) still around

The Sultan's summer house...just up the hill from his castle...nice.

The castle

The gardens at the Alhambra (red castle in arabic)
Just another beautiful plaza in Granada
This street artist had his dog trained to play dead haha

sheet music from way back when

The cathedral in Granada
graffiti is everywhere here and I like it.
immature....

2009-05-28T01:17:00.000-07:00

friends took me out for desert after our test on my bday...Im really stretching this bday out

bday
Celebrating Marcos' bday in Triana...the next night! haha
Celebrating my birthday in Triana!

2009-05-25T08:40:00.000-07:00

My sweet roomate Kellen got me flowers for my bday!
My professor surprised me and took the class out to get cake for my bday.
¡Feliz cumpleaños a mí!

Another procession for another Saint..not sure which one
If you're good you get an ear.
If the people like the bull fighter they wave hanker-chiefs...if they dont like him they whistle.
There he goes...dead... this happens six times. There are three bull fighters and two bulls to each bull fighter. They sell the meat in the markets the next day and those proceeds go to orphanages. I'm not sure how I feel about bull fights.
Now they are just kind of waiting for him to collapse and die. Then they stab him in the head and pull him out of the ring.
This is right before he stabbed him with the big curved sword which goes straight to his heart.
Then the bullfighter comes out and puts on a show and sizes up his bull.
Basically these guys jab him a bunch with little swords in the back to lower his head before the real bull fighter even comes out.
Pobre toro : ( before the bull fight started- btw this is the first time this animal has EVER seen a two legged animal. They are fed and worked with on horseback
Alicia and I in Córdoba

I had been serious in the Mezquita for so long so I chased some birds around outside afterwards

I have officially fallen in love with family crests. I have a whole series of pictures on them but I figured I'd just put one up.
My conversation professor! Mario... he's a hoot

Córdoba- this is the Mezquita (mosque) these pictures dont really do it justice

This is a park right across from my families apartment- This is where I've started to have my quiet time its beautiful

2009-05-25T05:16:00.000-07:00

Close to the Cathedral
Spanish kids are sooooooo cute!

Flamenco dresses--- they were like 10 pounds but fun to wear!

2009-05-22T05:02:00.000-07:00

   Me/ Lisa/ Alicia
   running in! It was freezing!
the only outlets were in the bathroom and we wanted to let our parents know we were alive : ) you're welcome madre
My roomie! Kellen and I really love the places with gelato...I think thats where we are in this pic
   Cadiz!
   burying daniel
   Get your guns up!

2009-05-18T09:08:00.000-07:00

One of my top five favorite things about Spain. ¡Quiero un cafe con leche!
Iglesia in Italica
Teatro (Roman Theatre)

Olive buds ..there will be olives around september-october
Roman columns- the rest were pillaged and most are in homes in Seville
bakery
this was my favorite mosaic tiled house. ¡Pájaros por todas partes!

Poseidon mosaic tile
Mosaic tile in a house
Sculptures that were semi- destroyed when the Carthaginians attacked

2009-05-17T10:27:00.000-07:00

at the Roman colosseum in Italica
This is where the gladiators got ready and the lions stayed
on the bus to Italica
A catholic holiday ritual ...procession for St. Isadora
the air was filled with incense it was really neat

Sierpes (outdoor market) where lladro is an all the good stuff : ) havent really explored here yet
all of the trees are in bloom here...and there are a ton its beautiful
Torre de Oro (tower of gold) where people like Christopher Columbus would sail in and bring their discoveries and treasures

In front of the torro ring
the steps where Cervantes collected stories to write Don Quixote
Cathedral again...a picture is worth 1000 words

The Cathedral

Plaza de St. Cruz
The magnolia trees are HUGE here

there are orange trees everywhere (árboles anaranjados)
Jardines de Murillo
Seville
bidet...apparently this is really healthy...haven't tried it yet.
this took alicia and I FOREVER to figure out haha to make the electricity work in the hotels you have to leave the key card in.
cute little niño playing fútbol
Madrid train station....there were hundreds of tortugas (turtles) in the water