Thursday, February 26, 2009

History Project: Minority Rights

Here's some Photoshop pictures I made for a history project on minority rights that I'm doing with Nate: (edit: condensed into one post)

Separate but Equal: / Jim Crow Laws:


Civil War:

Friday, February 20, 2009

Michael's for the Weekend

On Sunday over President's Day weekend I went up to Cupertino to visit Michael for the first time. His dad had business to do in Monterey, so he came down and we played Super Smash Bros. Melee at my house for about an hour until he was done. Then we drove back up to his house in Cupertino, which was really close to where I used to live in 3rd grade. It was pouring rain the entire time, and did not ever fully stop for the entire trip. We had pizza for dinner and caught up on everything that's happened since he moved, including the CCS concert. Then we played Halo 3 on his fairly new Xbox 360.

The next day it was still pouring rain. We drank Chai tea and hung around at the house for quite a while. Katie left around ten to go to the mall and a movie with her friends all day. Since there wasn't much to do outside, we stayed inside and watched the Puffy Shirt episode of Seinfeld, among other things. At one point we went on a small walk around the area when the rain lightened up a little. In the afternoon we came along when his mom was picking up Katie and drove by my old house in Cupertino. I still recognized all the stores and parks. We had pasta for dinner that night.

On Tuesday we left around eleven to drive back to PG. We stopped in Gilroy at Predator's Archery because his mom had to take her two bows in for inspection and repair. We stayed there for about an hour and watched people shoot in the small range inside the store. Then we continued back and went to Matthew's for a couple of hours before I went home.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Big Sur

For my mom's birthday on the 13th, we went down to Big Sur and had lunch at Nepenthe. I had not been to Nepenthe since the China Camp to Big Sur hike a while back, when I went with Matthew. I had the vegetarian ambrosia burger for lunch which was really good. After we ate lunch and went to the Phoenix Shop, we went to the Garapata area where I took some nice photos. Then we went to the Succulent Garden at the Barnyard in Carmel and my mom picked out a nice stone lion head for the garden.