Last summer I wanted to have a project to keep me occupied while I was away from home. I thought keeping myself busy would prevent me from getting too homesick. I was so good at keeping myself busy, though, that I never got around to doing the project I dreamed up.
The picture's fuzzy, but that's the general idea for my project: a massive photo collage of college photos and a a few momentos as well (like leaves collected on a day of rolling down hills during Poetry Writing...still one of my favorite classes of all time).
Plans:
- Under "college memories" at the top, it's going to say "vini, vidi, vici"
- Along all 4 edges, there will be some quotes:
- "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." ("Closing Time" by Semisonic)
- "I've learned that your college friends become a kind of family. You eat together, go to
games, laugh, fight, and do absolutely nothing together until you can't seem to remember how you ever lived your life without them in the first place." (something I stumbled across online)
I am looking for one more quote to on there, but that'll come in time. This will be one of those things that culminates all of my college years and the people who made them as great as they were. There will be pictures of places and people and the irreplaceable memories along the way, ticket stubs, El passes, and other little odds and ends tucked in there as well. It's going to be in a big poster frame so there's plenty of room. A lot of stuff accumulates after 5 years. A lot of memories accumulate after 5 years.
Maybe this will be a project for this summer. We'll see where life goes. But it's on the To Do list now, so it must be done.
~"A good snapshot stops a moment from running away." [-Eudora Welty]~
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I found a leaf stuck in my Literature book today. It made me think of our class, too. I still have my Peace and Friendship badge from the group of...uh, were they Martians?...well, whoever those masked men were...from the friendly group we met on our excursion.
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