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Correction: Go to Orphanage-Outreach.org Buy their 2011 calendar for $1. I'm quoted in June 2011!! Oh and VOLUNTEER with them! You'll love it!

Go to OrphanageOutreach.org Buy their 2011 calendar for $1. I'm quoted in June 2011!! Oh and VOLUNTEER with them! You'll love it!

Mobile blogging is proving to be impossibly difficult. My blogger account email is not the email I use on my phone.

Try new things: Model

Since I'm currently unemployed, I decided to help out a photographer start a portfolio. I worked with Miklos Solyom, who primarily is specialized in video and commercials. (www.miklosfilms.com) We worked in SoHo in NYC. I literally got the pictures and thought, "who is this model and where are the pictures of me!?" He did a fantastic job, especially considering I have zero experience with modeling or professional photography.

This picture is my favorite, hands down.

I was running late that day and literally ran to the LIRR train station in flip flops. I had to take off the flip flops and run barefoot. I got to my train with just enough time to purchase a ticket and run into the train. Two of my toes were bleeding from running. I was sweating. I pulled up my hair up with outdated little clip to cool off. When I got into NYC I walked from Penn Station all the way down to SoHo. I didn't bring a purse so I had no hairbrush or mirror. It was simply luck that my hair actually looked presentable in these pictures.

This guy was painted on a wall. I was slightly awkward about taking these pictures, but I went along with Miklos' idea. They came out better than I'd expected!

This one below is another favorite.

And, my last favorite. I admit this picture is sort of strange. However, I like it because it reminds me of a high fashion advertisement. Given a new outfit or strong piece of jewelry, I could picture this style of photography in a fall Vogue.

Nicaragua

Our Accomplishments in Nicaragua: Starting the wall

I just returned last week from my trip to Nicaragua. I often refrain from using the term "mission trip" because I feel like that leads to certain assumption. It was a volunteer trip. Everyone on their own, or with a friend. Everyone from different areas of the United States. We worked through Orphanage Outreach building a wall in the city of Jinotega. Jinotega is up in the mountains of Nicaragua. While some of us started the wall, others provided educational activities at the daycare facilities where the wall was being built. I've been on another international volunteer trip but this trip really blew me away. I had a phenomenal time with the people of Jinotega, the volunteers on the trip, the leaders/directors of the trip and, of course, the children at the daycares.

First, I will start with some of my favorite

pictures. The smiles on the children's faces as they

were eager to help us. (Obviously, they could only help with small tasks, not with the

wall.)

Or when they found fun in the simplest activities.

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This was the first day of volunteering. We were told that we needed to dig holes in order to put the columns that will hold the wall together. There was already a hill of dirt that we needed to dig through first in order to start digging at ground level.

Every brick that was needed for the wall was carried by the volunteers. Given the

weight and amount of bricks, everyone needed

to help!

An hour after the heat was completely unbearable, it started to rain. Really RAIN!!! We were completely covered in water and mud. The dirt started to become more like clay.

Each hole needed to be 4 ft 6 inches deep!

Bad Dreams and Bad Job Offers

I had the weirdest dream last night and I can't think of anywhere else that I can write it down. This isn't a typical post from me and I apologize because my dream is violent. I am unsure what to think about it.

I was with a few people somewhere. Obviously not in New York, or home because when it was time to go to bed I had to share a bed with one of the guys that work in the deli. It was Manuel who constantly bothers me. (Only in Spanish because he does not speak English.) In real life and in the dream, it is obvious that he has a certain shyness due to having a crush on me. In my dream, we needed to share a bed to sleep in. Everything was platonic. There was Bobby (friend from school that bartended at Mon. Sports Grill on Campus) and some other girl sharing his bed. Also, seeming platonic. Actually, I can't remember if Bobby and the girl were even in my dream until after I "woke up". However, I wake up with Manuel practically on top of me. He is innocently but very forcefully trying to kiss me and get on top of me. If that last sentance doesn't make sense to you, please read Of Mice of Men by Steinbeck. In a very Lenny way, he was attacking me and I seemed to have no control. In my dream, I put my hand in his mouth and physically damaged his teeth and gums. There was blood everywhere. I didn't realize that I knocked out his teeth until after I got up. I went to the next room where Joe and Dounia were sleeping. In real life, Joe and Dounia employ Manuel. In my dream, they escort Manuel into the hallway. Nobody seemed surprised. By this time, Bobby and the girl are apparent in the dream. They are speaking with Joe about the current situation. Then, either the girl, or another girl that was on my bed whom I've already forgotten, goes into the hallway to fill out accident/police reports about the night. I'm sure that in my dream my attention goes from the hallway to the beds. I think the girl that went to fill out the reports was a separate girl in my bed, because I'm pretty sure Bobby and the girl are still bed while everything is going on. I'm talking with them. Then I wake up.

And awake, I have an email blinking on the ever-wonderful Blackberry. It's a job vacancy for Jane Schellhase which can't be anything but a scam. However, in my 6am just out of a nightmare demenour, was hopefully. The email was from EXIM Exchange Company. It offered me 100-500 dollars a day to cash checks as a Check processing manager.

All this before 6am??