Fall Vacation

This year, Columbia has been quite pretty during the Autumn season. The trees are holding their color for a longer time. (of course, that's because it isn't as cold as it should be and we all know why)

Asheville, in North Carolina was pretty much the same too.

A beautiful place with artistic stores, one should definitely visit it if they are search of something very different. It could be anything-furniture, jewellery, clothes, handicrafts, shoes, and even food!

Even though it's a city, I would call it a pretty little mountain town, and a place for a sweet vacation visit.The downtown area is a must see, especially at night, as all the christmas lightings are up and vibrantly showing off.

Unfortunately, I missed the tribal dancers and the djembe players :(
But here are a few pictures from the trip.

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Fall Break and Movies

I watched two quite amazing movies recently. Even though both of those have been out for quite a time now, I never really got about to see them until this time.

I watched An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary film by Al Gore that talks about Global Warming. It was striking because I think that it is able of convincing every single foolish soul who does not believe in the planet's warming do something substancial about it.

The second one is called Children of Men and is adapted from a novel. Accoring to my friend who has read it, it is quite different from the book itself but is very impactful. It portrays a futuristic society where all the women are infertile, there are no young babies or even children, and the world's in a chaos and in a state of exile.

They are both worth watching, so go and check them out if you already havn't.

Things To Do...Besides From Getting the Schoolwork Finished

When I came to Columbia, SC, I spent so much time hating it that I rarely ever appreciated the beauty in it. And that attitude also extended pretty much for the entire country.
For the past few months I have been dreaming about how I want to run away from here, be in other places/ countries, and visit all the beautiful places without even realizing that some of the most beautiful places/things are right here in this country. So I made a list of things to experience/discover here as time allows..

• Hike the Glacier National Park
• Go to Yellowstone
• Go to Alaska
• Hike the Appalachian Trail :)
• Aspen Music Festival
• Other music festivals
• Go to a Broadway show
• A Karaoke night club
• Walk around the Mississippi and hopefully find the cave that Tom and Huck hid in :)
• Go to CALIFORNIA! and live like a hippie for a day or two
• Rodeo!
• Bungee jump from the Grand Canyon :)
• Hawaii!
• take the longest and the craziest roadtrip
• New Orleans during Mardi Gras
• Live in one of the Indian reservations
• Death Valley
• Smithsonian Institute
• Underground dance clubs in NYC ;)
• Other places in NYC undiscovered
• Blackhills National Forest
• Massachusetts in general
• Maine (for some reason)
• Visit the Ahmish people

I think that's about it and a lot for now.
;-)

Boast of Quietness

A wonderful poem by Jorge Luis Borges.

Writings of light assault the darkness, more prodigious than meteors.
The tall unknowable city takes over the countryside.
Sure of my life and death, I observe the ambitious and would like to understand them.
Their day is greedy as a lariat in the air.
Their night is a rest from the rage within steel, quick to attack.
They speak of humanity.My humanity is in feeling we are all voices of that same poverty.
They speak of homeland.My homeland is the rhythm of a guitar, a few portraits, an old sword,the willow grove’s visible prayer as evening falls.
Time is living me.
More silent than my shadow, I pass through the loftily covetous multitude.
They are indispensable, singular, worthy of tomorrow.
My name is someone and anyone.
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive