dinner at prof's

Both studio crits, all students, several partners.

much much food.

I made my usual fruit salad and the usual thing happened: to start everyone spooned out their bits and pieces and then by the end of the night everyone was just taking pieces out with their fingers. I think that's a huge compliment that people keep picking away at the fruit, but it also says something really lovely about the comfort levels between people - high.

Also afterwards unrelated party at an amazing apartment - E: like yours at Anamoe, but super huger.

priority list: super secret project, then tech portfolio and hopefully something for world pinhole photography day.

peace.

out at the Village

Yesterday for my birthday I drove out to the Mennonite Heritage Village:

http://www.mennoniteheritagevillage.com/

Picture a smaller, less funded, less attended version of Fort Edmonton Park. I did have a good time although I probably got bitten by more mosquitoes out there than I have in my whole life! In the full-swing of the summer they probably have a few people wandering around as interpreters, but yesterday there were none and there were only a handful of visitors as well. Most of the visitors were Mennonite. There are many very well kept buildings and a huge beautiful windmill that is equipped with a fully functioning flour grinding stone. The mechanisms for making the flour mill work are impressive and it looked like everything was handmade inside. You'll have to take my word or visit it yourself because the photos won't do the mill justice. I would say that the Windmill is worth the price of admission for sure.

Also I spent some of the day driving around the country south of Winnipeg. It's very lovely!

Tomorrow is secret field trip day at school. Later I will safety pin the $20 I have to bring to the inside of my pocket for safe keeping. I am currently charging my camera battery and emptying my photo card to make room for copious amounts of photos as per the prof's instructions. And so it begins.

peace.