As Time Passes--4/30 D'C

     This blog post is about everyday from April 10th to April 13th. If you ask me which part of my life passes the fastest, as a student, I would definitely say--weekend. Weekends start from Friday afternoon to Sunday evening. I usually felt exhausted first, then excited, relaxed, anxious, and sorrowful at last. No matter how long I have been lying on my bad and watching movies, the whole weekend still seem like twenty minutes of the math class.

Thai

     Friday afternoon, I went to the new Thai restaurant with my friend and camera. We were dying to eat something "un-dining hall&dragon buffet". The weather was pretty good, although the wind at six still felt chilly. Sitting on leather sofa in a whole Thai environment, I automatically forgot everything about school. Pineapple fired rice, basil, and Tom Yam Gong soup became the leaders of my empty stomach and soul. Of course, dinner is much more than eating itself. We talked a lot during the endless chewing, about college, troubles, stars, and the impending summer vacation. The exoticness of this Thai restaurant became a wonderful land to hold all my tiredness. When the food was served, I opened my camera instead of the phone, and stuffed that peaceful moment into infinity.

Roommate

      This girl in the photo is my beloved roommate Nancy. She was doing her Biology homework on Saturday morning. You can see the basic structure of our room. There is a bed behind her, and my part is symmetrical with hers about the door. What a narrow room! We can barely walk around. Anyway, the point of taking this picture is to show you the most regular day of my school life. Our room would be like this during every study hall, displaying the "silent brain storming" picture. By the way, be prepare to see lovely Nancy appears a lot in the next days, in case I don't feel like walking out and take photos. One of the biggest challenges of taking photos of your friends is learning how to hide. I must act quickly to record their nature appearances without attention. However, I still need their agreements to post the photos. 

Flowers

     The most interesting part of photography is tracing back. For example, a girl in China took one photo with her father each year since she was born. They stood together with the same gesture after the girl was capable of standing independently. Now, the little girl is a thirty-year-old mother and her father has already become a old man with white hair, but they never stop taking their routine photos. Last year, the girl combined all the photos together and posted them on the Internet. You can see how time changed people over years. The sweet little baby grew up to a gorgeous lady, and the handsome young man changed to the gracious grandfather. Time just never give you a single chance to find out when it secretly lift the former layer of yourself. When you trace back, with gratefulness and yearning, all the memories would emerge from the dust, and that is what attracts me the most about Photography. The fragrant flowers I encountered in the S&S claimed the arrival of spring. They suddenly reminded me of a poetry I recited years ago in home: "Year after year the blossoms look alike, while people never remain the same. " Then, I picked up the camera again, in memory of those fragile but eternal blossoms.

Froyo!

     To be honest, I am pretty satisfied with my first four days of challenge, but I also found a little potential problem. I have always been a lazy person. I may have the freshness to take photos all over the campus in the first few days, but as time passes, I am afraid I would be tired of it. As a student who goes to classes and does the homework, what can I record without repetition? My life is repetitive! By now, although I am still frustrated by the vague future of my challenges, I am still trying my best to find the new elements. Maybe I need to calm down and enjoy every possible second might be in the camera. Just try to mix the challenge into your life, as people always say: "Leave the future to the future."