progress!

i decided on which three sites i was going to create a webpage about for our group's site. on the world monuments fund website they had announced the 2010 watch list. i found some incredible sites on there and chose three.
i chose

1) Las Pozas in Xilitla, Mexico
2) Gingerbread Houses in Port au Prince, Haiti
3) Misiones Jesuiticas de Chiquitos (Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos) in Santa Cruz department, Bolivia

i am starting to create the specific pages for these sites.

restoration conservation foundation.

autumn, matt, kayla, & i decided to do our project on the restoration of historical sites.
we chose to do a website in which we will display pictures (in a slideshow type format). we are going to do a list of the top 10 sites that need to be restored in the country (world?).
we then will create a separate page in which we can get information from potential patrons. it will include an e-mail list that people can sign up for for more information on the sites that are in need of restoration.
the targeted audience is wealthy middle-aged business people who are somewhat tech-savvy (in other words, able to navigate a website).
we are also going to create an ad that will be strategically placed in news magazines, newspapers, and news websites such as CNN, NBCnews, etc.

on the edge of.....nineteen?

okay so i know it's very much more characteristic of parents to say things like this...but does anyone else feel like 19 is super old? like that's almost 20. my birthday is this saturday (november 14th) and of COURSE i am so excited to get older and to experience what life has to offer me. but still, i can't believe that i am about to embark upon my last year of teenage-hood. perhaps i see this as a bigger deal than others...it's not like on my actual birthday i will find this to be so strange, it's just looking at it generally...it just seems so much older. imagine what you thought of 19 year-olds when you were younger....it's strange...at least to me.

mi hermanita.

so unexpectedly (kinda) i really find myself missing my younger sister. i'm third in the line of 4 girls & i miss everyone...but i'm closest to my younger sister just because she's only a year & a half younger than me. we were involved in mostly the same things in high school (which was annoying for a while...but fun for the most part...especially the second half of high school). it IS kind of nice though to be away, because she's much nicer to me when i talk to her & when i go home. it's weird thinking about how things will be next year when she's (most likely, but hopefully not) at a different school then i am. i can't even believe i'm talking like this about a family member...but i don't do change very well.

plays with squirrels.

so, me (and my neighbor kelly) have been reflecting very deeply & often about our love for boy meets world. I MISS IT! it is such a wonderful show! the early years AND the later years. i have never been able to decide which ones i liked better. i will share with you this montage of funny boy meets world moments that kelly shared with me! all of you boy meets world fans will thoroughly enjoy this :)

a super deep, super meaningful haiku.

i need a new post.
i wish i were on a coast.
i like making toast.

fall.

so, as made evident in another post, i am IN LOVE with fall. everything about it, even the fluctuating, inconsistent weather makes me sooo happy.
today i looked up at THEEEE most amazing tree right outside of lafollete. and i just smiled! it has every single leaf color in it...and then i got a bit closer & noticed some polka dot leaves. it was amazing! i think if everyone else has an appreciation for these simple things in life, they'd be much happier :)