Once again, I became too busy to keep up with my blogs.

As I started on my second job at Safeway back in June, I soon found that I had become too busy to do the things I had wanted to do during the summer. As for my other job at the mobile slaughter, I will probably leave before the year's end since it has become unreliable -- for one, it is hard to get a hold of my boss there; on the other hand, several bounced checks from the customers have made it so I am basically working without pay.

Aside from those two dilemmas, I will be going back to college starting tomorrow to begin on my degree in photojournalism. For my first term back, I decided to take a most likely easy, yet interesting course on the geography of Oregon. This serves two purposes - one, to get me back into the mindset of college and studying; and two, to get me to find out what classes would be best for me to achieve my goals. So on every Tuesday, I will be able to talk with instructors and advisers that would know the best classes to take.


Even though I was quite busy during the summer, I did manage to go to a few places. The Oregon Garden was one of those places, and I intend to go again several times next year. Here are a few pictures:

In late June, I checked out the 'World Beat Festival,' and on the 4th of July, I went to Independence's 'Western Days.' From the World Beat Festival, I snapped these pictures:

 These were African masks that were being sold

 I love Native American Dances.

This little guy is a descendent of the Aztecs...or did they say Mayans?

I also went to the Oregon State Fair just to view the quilts on display (they had double the number of participants that last year). Two of my favorite are below - unfortunately, most of my pictures came out blurry because I was in a hurry:

That about sums up the last three months. And thanks to the rain, there hasn't been much to go see for the past two weeks.