Santa Barbara

A wise high schooler (oxymoron right there) recently told me that if I'm missing Westmont and Santa Barbara like crazy, then I must have made the right choice for college.

And he's right. Just look at Santa Barbara, it's amazing! I've only been back from college for a week and a half, but I'm already missing Westmont. I miss my friends, my dorm, my room, one of my roommates..., my RA, my RD, even my professors (especially Telford), everything! I was getting kinda sick of it in the moment, but now I can't wait to have it all back in the spring. Being home is great, but I'm so used to seeing all my friends around me all day long at school. It's definitely an adjustment being separated from so many amazing people.

(look closely: that's Benjamin and Peter on a romantic walk along the coast)

is the world ending?

A few weeks ago there was one of the most dramatic sunsets I've seen here in Santa Barbara.  I didn't know what to make of it, but it was awesome!

I only have a few weeks left here, and hopefully there will be more sunsets like this one.  I can't believe that my freshman year of college has gone by this fast.  It really feels like last month was August and I was moving into my dorm and meeting all these amazing people for the first time.  But in less than a month I'll be packing up my room and driving back to LA, not to return until January 2012.  Because in less than 100 days I'll be getting on a plane for Scotland for a month, then an entire semester in Europe and Israel.  I can't wait for summer and Europe, but I at the same time I'm really going to miss my life here at Westmont in John C. Page Hall.

grandpa's car

Some of my very oldest memories involve driving around in my grandpa's Chevy Corvair.

It's a 63' or 64', but if I ask my grandpa the exact year it would be a two hour conversation slash story about who knows what.  Apparently it's been deemed "unsafe at any speed" because with the engine weight in the back it has a tendency to slide out of control around corners.  I need to learn stick better before I can drive it, but I can't wait!

Westmont's best speaker

Sara Reinis won the speech tournament last weekend!  A few hours before the tournament we went and had a mini photoshoot outside Page Hall.

Sara has got some big hair... These were the only two I took with my film camera, but I still need to edit the ones I took with my 60D.

roll 3

I got my third roll of Ilford B&W film developed taken from my Pentax K1000.  Most of the shots are from a trip to the pier Wesley and I took last week.

This was actually the first time I went to the very end of the pier here since I was a kid.  Unlike the pier in Redondo, this one just end with almost no guard rales.  It makes you feel much more on top of the water.

There was a rowing practice going on, and they're instructor was just a old guy just screaming at them about how they're waisting his time.  I'd like to meet that guy.

The palm trees here remind me of LA.  I love Santa Barbara.