SUNFLOWERS AT PIKE MARKET $1
i was a tourist today & got some potato bread
and the best blackberry scone i've ever had.

my lithop back in california bloomed!

DAY IN FREMONT WITH NATALIE

on saturday, i visited my friend natalie!
~we went on a tour at theo's chocolate factory

~ate paseo's sandwiches w/ a peach i got at a farm

~showed each other pictures from

morocco + france & new zealand + tonga
~we also went to little boutiques and gawked
at cute locally produced stuff.

vanessa showed me this picture and said

"i think this picture captures your spirit."

i found a plant in a dumpster outside grace's apartment.

i gave it some water and now it's healthy again.

i also pulled a succulent off a tree

in during the "neighborhood walk"
and gave it a new home

in a banana flavored yogurt container.

today, my 2nd grade buddy M hugged me

for the first time after playing four-square

(he's really shy and quiet,

so it was a very magical moment).

i get to see this sunset every evening :)

day trip to discovery park!
  

we hiked for 6 hours through low tide & forests
& saw a galore of dead animals

(dead jellyfish, dead baby sea otter)

as well as some live animals

(bald eagle, heron, chipmunks).

picking wild berries
along our hike, ashley and i decided

to engage in some serious blackberry
harvesting. we scavenged about 3 lbs
and each ate ~a hundred berries along the way.

the sweetest juiciest patches

were along the beach in the sunshine.

thorns and bees didn't stop us.

 we want to bake a blackberry cobbler

and topple it with vanilla ice cream!

Anatidaephobia- the fear that somewhere,

somehow, a duck is watching you.

SUNSHINE CLEANING

"i want to thank you for all

being here, a part of this program.

i am really proud of everybody
and the work you are doing."

-kate
co-professor of my favorite class.

this is so powerful,

it gets at the heart of it all.

my friend seh invited me to

go to iran with her.

:)

shannon makes good soup,
cai taught kindergarten in korea for a year.

grace is from hawai'i and we watched
the new wolverine movie together
(it was NOT good...at all).

we ate grasshoppers today.

salty. crunchy.

i definitely broke my own record of #

of hours spent in class today.

(7)

now, my life consists of
digging for worms,
debating educational issues,
hanging out with super fantastic
people all day every day,
long commutes and sleepless nights in seattle.

"let's get married, we legally can here!"- ashley

"hmm...OKAY!"

after 6.5 hours of class, we decided to stop

at a japanese market on the drive back home.

i stocked up on sushi, tea and mochi.
keseniya tried hichew for the first time.
grace got red bean mochi and fed me some.
danny got some dinosaur egg looking crackers.
vanessa got a bento box. 

 i love tuesdays.
i love my classes on tuesdays.
i love all the discussions we have.
i love the people in my cohort.
^______^