Museum on the website

Do you know this site?
http://www.googleartproject.com/
When I watched one of TEDs on Podcast, I learned it.


Through this website you can visit certain museums from around the world, such as MoMA, The Frick Collection, the Met, Tate Britain, Palace of Versailles and so on.
As you know, they are prominent museums all over the world.
Moreover you can view a lot of arts at incredible zoom levels and create and share your own collection of them.
It is launched by one of the workers in Google, who is the TED speaker.
All over the world there are a tons of people who doesn't have any access to arts but have an access to the Internet.
For example I've never been to Palace of Versailles, but through this website, it seems that I am visiting there. 
It is kind of virtual reality world but much more real than it.
So I think it must be helpful to people who are interested in arts but don't have any chance to view them directly.
Briefly it is interesting for me greatly!

In my opinion, therefore, any ideas can help someone.
And everyone must have it.
It doesn't matter whether it is big or whether it is going to help someone.
I think it is important that everyone has ideas.
And no one cannot deny it without reasonable suggestion.
I learned it through our photography club meeting.


....It seems that my story skipped from the online museum to the other.
I'm sorry....


Anyways, I've deeply learned many things, especially relationships among friends.
I'm going to keep learning it as long as I live though.
Recently I have been satisfied with my life thanks to the photography club.

Thank you for reading to the last even though it is long.

Ayumi*

[Today's]
steps: 4260
breakfast: cereal with milk
lunch: sandwiches(potato salad)
dinner: BLT/boiled corn

[The day before Yesterday's]
steps:13642
breakfast: I don't remember...
lunch: falafel
dinner: Chinese at Din Tai Fung
(I went to the Northwest Folklife Festival with my friends. It is an event in Seattle every year. It is not that fun for me but enjoyed the time with my friends!)

Photography

Somehow I could not use the Internet at home last night (actually from the day before yesterday), and so I've uploaded this article in this morning.

Recently I have worked for the 1st exhibition of the photography club.
(Did I tell you that I had joined the photograph club in my school?)
Actually I am in charge of one section although I am a new member.
I cooperated with my friend in making its poster.
He took pictures for it and I worked it in Photoshop from his idea.
To be honest I am not satisfied with the typography but he is in charge of poster/advertisement and so I cannot put my nose into his job.
This is our poster.

Anyways I am so excited about it because I've never showed my pictures like this.
I am looking forward to our exhibition!!!!!

And yesterday I cooked because my mom sent me some ingredients, which is seaweed(hijiki) and wakame.
So I made cooked rice with hijiki, deep-fried bean curd(abura-age), carrot and dried shiitake mashroom.

Although it's been a long time since I cooked last, it is so nice.
However I still have them a lot, so please give me some ideas to cook them.

Ayumi*






[Yesterday's]
steps: 15809
breakfast: cereal with milk
lunch: pork stew(leftover)
dinner: biscuits

It has been a year.

It has been a year which seems the longest year I've ever had so far.
Many things happen during this period.
A year ago to the day I heard the word from my mom which was unexpected and made me grieved deeply.
However at that time I was thinking to go abroad.
It was hard to make a decision but I applied and now I am here, in the US.
And it has been 8 months already since I live here.
In Japan there was a huge earthquake and still aftershock happens.
I was shocked terribly but I noticed that I should keep doing what I did before the earthquake.
There is nothing I can do for Japan from here.
All I can do is do my best like I did a year ago.

This 1 year seems really long, but after I came here the time has been passing like a moment.
Sometimes it was really hard for me to keep doing my best.
However when I feel like that, I try to recollect my feeling when I decided to come here.
It encourage me to do as well as possible.

In those days many unexpected things came up.
Those are too hard for us to get over.
However we need to get over them.
I've made up my mind to have a smile on my face even if I have a hard time.
It arouses much more confidence and motivation to me.

And finally I've got an internship in the next quarter.
I am going to work for an architectural office in Seattle for about 3 months.
There I can do what I wanted to do as an intern.
So I do my best with my motivation which I had when I applied.

Ayumi*

R.I.P.