Thank goodness for summer!

Spring term just ended last week, and already summer has been full of night-swimming, a multitude of four am chats with friends, trips to town, nail painting parties, afternoon beach hours, reading for fun, field trips about food sovereignty and makin' money. I'm living in what is probably the best house in this little town with some wonderful roommates and am just so glad to have this six week break free of homework, quizzes, exams, three hour lectures and all those other school things. I now have a chance to immerse myself in nerdiness for sheer enjoyment without concerns about deadlines and bedtimes and such.

I make no guarantees about posting at any interval, but I do promise that I think about posting at least twenty-seven times for every time that I do actually find myself wandering onto blogger, and all of those thoughts are deep and awe-inspiring, of course.

As for a picture this post... On Memorial Day, some friends and I drove down to town to check out the Lantern Floating Festival without any real idea of what it would be. We certainly weren't expecting the thousands of people that were packed into Ala Moana Beach Park, or the huge projection screens showing what was going down on the stage. Needless to say, we were a little surprised upon arrival. There was a bit of a concert before the speeches and ceremony and all that and then the two thousand lanterns were set out on the water. I wish I had more mad skillz as a writer so that you all could feel it, but I don't, and this picture will have to suffice. Trust me, it was beautiful.

 

And now, off I go to get some sleep before a very early wake-up to go catch the first game of the World Cup. I think I'm rooting for South Africa in this game, and for Brazil in general.