Pictures!!

Instead of writing tonight (I'm too wiped to think about much...) I'm going to post some pictures and captions of what I've seen here so far...

My arrival at the airport...  Greeted by cloudy skies, but a beautiful open airport!

Here is a cloudy view of the mountains from my bus en route to Ellensburg!

I loved seeing the mountaintops disappear into the fog!

I fell asleep somewhere in the cloudy-ness of Seattle, and woke up a short while later to clear blue skies and beautiful farmland.

...and lots of gorgeous scenery through the bus windows!

Here is our Rasaboxes grid, all decorated with chalk from today (Day 3 of class).  Each day, we tape out the grid, label each box with one of the different Rasas, and then draw pictures, words, or patterns in the box to help us express the different emotions associated with each.

When we enter the boxes, we focus on breathing to animate and creative a narrative to the Rasa we experience in the box, and move in all different ways to experience the Rasa and hopefully help those witnessing experience it as well.  We end up covered in chalk in a VERY short period of time, seeing as we are rolling, scraping the floor, treading barefoot, and tracing the box in so many different types of movement.

Here's the view from outside my apartment as we walked from lunch back to the theatre today.

I am IN LOVE with this gnarled, beautiful tree.  This little stream runs through campus, and there's a pretty brick/concrete footpath that passes over it!

 And another view of the little stream that runs through campus...

More pictures on my facebook page, if you're a friend...  or sent me a message and I can post a few more!

I spent this evening switching classes (from two of my electives with small enrollment likely to be cancelled) to other classes instead (Set and Properties, and Design Methodology).  Now I'm ordering more textbooks and hoping that I have the right delivery address for amazon to ship them to!  Free amazon student 2-day shipping rocks my world.

Amanda (my roommate) cooked a simple, delicious dinner for us tonight (a Mexican soup and tuna cheese melts) and I am pretty much in heaven.  Except now I have to go do dishes--  only fair since she did the cooking!  :)  Tomorrow night--  my turn to cook.  Should be interesting...