Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, everyone! ;)

want to send you lots of love from where I am at....

on the wall of the Froelichs' living room it says...


Christmas,
is the most wonderful time of the year...

xoxo

;)

For reals...

"I'm a dog," she said.

"Now, read this."

"Let's play hide and seek!"

"Read this again!"

all done!!

hello world!

i am so psyched because i finished the paper after working so hard in the library!!! and behold.....i'm all done with this semester!!!!

after turning it in tomorrow i will start my packing for Mon-tan-na~!

bye bye 2009! it was fun!!!!
hello 2010...hello more photo taking!

have a great night and i will see you all soon, family!

big hugs and kisses
from lisa

winter wonderland

dec 2009

09' winter

about 20 days later, it will be the year of 2010.
who would believe i could get this far.....

i am finishing my degree for communication and art, getting an internship with the photographer i heard about when i was a freshman, went to japan for a semester, got my own camera, done a personal exhibit, met amazing people...even attended a wedding of my sister's!

who would thought i will be typing about this in my dorm room in minnesota, united states of america...a place could get so cold whenever i get into a car i would shiver until the car warms up a bit...

10 years ago, in 2000... i was 11, just about to finish my 6th grade,
i was prepared to say goodbye (to people i thought was the world to me),
and i was in the process of finding a new place to start over with.

starting everything over with.

new middle school friends, new teachers, new routes for school,
new library, new supermarket to go to....

it took me a long time to get used to that,
(and to really understand how the bus routes work. haha)

now, i am graduating in a semester.
and i just said good luck to my high school friend on her finals
(she is graduating next year also, but in November)

who would know we can get this far? ;)

next (after finals + paper) :
new year's resolution and 2009 recap (perhaps in photos?) !

Baby! ("bay-beh")

youaremyfave.com

catch it before is gone.

It was not completely successful. But you can see 3 hearts.

I tried all night...perhaps the light was too far away... I just could not get it right. But I was happy because I tried.

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You know, I have tried to avoid 8am class at all cost since I was a freshman, but I don't mind them because I really would like to have that professor, even when communication classes are over at sju.

I often get heart attacks because I wake up late or such.
I survived them all, I passed them all.

Now I am at the very last week of this semester, (two days of classes left !)
the 2nd last semester in my college career is ending so soon.

It's bittersweet, really.

As a senior, I am going to say I enjoy my 8am classes, it's official.
Because at 7:50 in the morning, the campus is super quiet. And you know me, I like quiet. :) The cold air, the sunrises....

---

In the mornings, I am either too rush to put my contacts on,
or I feel like being a nice child and put my glasses on.

Some days though ... I just let my eyes be out focus.

---

These days, the school put up Christmas lights around campus,
and it's dark enough that I am able to see surprises in the morning,
like this picture below -

This mini Christmas tree was in the office when I worked last week (I brought my camera because of my boss asked for it or else I wouldn't have it with me)...

2 days later, the Christmas lights are all gone! Instead I found candy canes!

I was glad I took some pictures before they disappeared. ;)

there are so much to learn...

about this baby.

I believe i can do better than,
"this looks good", click... or click...click...click..., "i like this one"

Sometimes though, it's exciting when things happen in split seconds and
I was about to click it, and the frame is in my camera.

One day, soon...if i am able to tell people, "oh, i took this one with a high aperture, low shutter speed. It is iso 400, with a manual focus..."

I would feel very happy about this baby.

Getting the most of out mr. nikon is my goal. He's got so much potential!
Of course, he is only about 3 and 1/2 months old.

Still got a long way to go ;)

thanksgiving recap

me/ d90/ amanda/ her cousins
band hero & beatles rock band/ baby & family
half price bookstore/ batman comics/ old records/8 tracks (!!!)

(I was tempted to buy lots of old records home.)

When they sky is happy (I meant pretty), I am extra happy.

Are you happy today?

p.s. Click to see baby Isaac Patch that was born today!

bokeh wednesday!

It's very addicting.

What I meant is that I took another n of these bokeh pictures at work.

They put up a mini Christmas tree.
(But I might putting those pictures up when I do the count down.)

I brought my camera to work because my supervisor wanted
me to take a photo for the READ posters competition.

Let's hope we will win. ;)

It's December!

Thanksgiving break, 2009

No, it wasn't taken on Black Friday,
but I was in front of Target when I took it. ;)

Are you excited for Christmas?

Birthdays.

Note to self:
Carrot cake + Cream cheese frosting + Oreao is good.

When I am happy...

It doesn't matter if the sky was grey, if it started raining when i don't have an umbrella with me...I am still very happy.

I am thankful for today, because it filled with beautiful friends, music and art all around.

I am also thankful for sleep & being able to waking up for the next beautiful day.

Thanksgiving break starts tomorrow after class, then only 10 more days till finals.

I am going miss this a lot a lot.
Can't believe it's been 3 years & 1/2....and I am graduating...

Lisa, try to remember today. It was a happy day. :D

{here are some more pictures of that one day J town felt like Europe.. :) }

photos by christy

ahem

my friends and i went to a midnight showing of new moon last night. jacob was really sort of, beautiful. ;)


the movie theatre was packed (with girls!!!) ,
i was scared if anyone would jump in the line,
people would start yelling at each other. . .

oh, we waited for about 1 1/2 hour to get a good spot before it starts. . . .

Mary, i miss those days when we drove from here to montana...
& we took turn reading breaking dawn in the van....hehee, miss you!

hello.

Emails
I've missed writing you. It's fun talking to myself and it's also quite funny to imagine a friend's voice after receiving one. (I would reading the email out loud in my heart. Do you imagine my voice sometimes?)

Red nails
Last weekend my friend painted my nails red, bright red. I felt a little bit older because of that. I have been forgetting my actual age.

Photo shoot
And in 15 minutes I will be helping a school organziation to take pictures for their campus-wide campaign. It's the 2nd photo shoot of the day. The purpose of their group to raise awareness about consent/equality/respect/safety around the area. The 1st location was near the bus stop, and the 2nd location is going to be outside the bar and outside the pizza shop over here in J town.

I will write more later about how it went. I have yet to be really sure where the bar is. It's very dark out.
And I feel like I should find a friend to walk with me.But no worries, I will be carrying a tripod.

xoxo
Lisa

p.s, I am missing bowling with my roommates, hopefully this will go well. I think they said they would pay me a gift card!

p.p.s. Did you know I went out to watch the meteor shower Monday night? I saw a HUGE shooting star!! I screamed when I saw it. ;)

;)

My roommates and I

pretended we went to a little town in Europe today. ;)

1:23am

I have good feelings about this month.
It's gonna be good.

Just finished a big exam tonight, now I can focus on the small papers. Promise to finish editing the pictures soon and go take new pictures... :)

love, Lisa

The Process of Revolution

身體狀況報告：

不停流眼水，間中有耳鳴，
極力控制自己要專心完成百多頁的reading。
最近，睡得比較早，仍覺得很累。
皮膚，喉嚨很乾。但根據weather.com 我這邊比香港的濕度還要高。奇怪。

Click here to try to guess what I said.
By the way, I am not thinking about the pictures on the right.

nom nom nom

Penny made me this last week.

It's settled. (Not just because of that!)

Dear crabby Lisa in October,

Remember to be grateful. As it is great to be able to read, write and have an education. You should be happy to have homework and the chance to go to class.

Eat lots, sleep much, and laugh some more when you can. Be nice to the good friends, call your family sometime.

love you & take care, Lisa in November

happy halloween!

just came back from the haunted house the club i belong organized.
it turned out very fun, and spppokeeyy.
we got lots of screams. 2 hours of screams and laughs :)

i was a doll that comes alive - screaming and rocking!!!

happy halloween! xoxo, Lisa

eric

eric asked, "what's your name again?"
eric forgot about my name, but he said, "you live with...becky, right?"

this adorable child was hanging out with me when we were waiting for the grown ups to be done. he was in love with my camera, so i let him took a picture or two with the holga. i can't wait to see how did they turn out.

:)