This Would Have Made My Morning Commute!

"More than 200 dancers were performing their version of "Do Re Mi", in the Central Station of Antwerp. with just 2 rehearsals they created this amazing stunt! Those 4 fantastic minutes started the 23 of march 2009, 08:00 AM. It is a promotion stunt for a Belgian television program, where they are looking for someone to play the leading role, in the musical of "The Sound of Music". "

Geocaching

My friend Chris has been promising to take me geocaching for quite some time now. . . Our schedules finally worked out today so we went. Our first stop (and my first cache ever) was in Hidden Hollow in Sugarhouse. I found the place (with some hints from Chris) and John stuck his hand back in the dark, potentially spider infested crevice to get the cache.

The next stop was a corner where we had to stand and wait for a webcam to take a picture of us. We got a lot of funny looks from the passing traffic.

The next stop was at the U of U campus. We had a bunch of photos where we had to find their locations and GPS coordinates. After that, we had to use the numbers we found to find coordinates for a final cache location. There were 2 sets of photos . . . the easy set and the hard set. The hard set turned out to be easier to complete. The so-called easy one had us running all over campus trying to find this statue. The campus was mostly deserted but we did find some skateboarders and frisbee golfers to ask. They didn't know either. We finally found it around 11:30 pm with a little help from Google. Anyone know where it is?

After all the searching for picture places, we found the final prize for the supposedly hard one, but couldn't find the supposedly easy one.

Not wanting to end the evening with a failure, we decided to go for one more cache. On the way there, it started to rain. Then it started to pour. Then it rained even harder. . .

We went for it anyway and found it.

How to Tell That Facebook is Taking Over The World . . .

You find yourself thinking, "Hmmm, this guy has been on Facebook at least since my sister talked me into trying it in November, and his brother, who I would really like to catch up with, hasn't appeared yet. Oh no! Does that mean he died?"

Culture Appreciation

One thing I love about my job is spending so much time in the midst of representatives from so many different cultures. One thing that is hard about my job is properly appreciating aspects of culture that conflict with what I think should be going on. For example, with very few exceptions, Tongan boys tend to be noisy. They also tend to be bright, caring, loyal to their families, and many other good things, but some days the drumming and the shouting just put me over the edge. Today I am reminded that with proper guidance and channelling, even the things that drive me crazy can be turned into something wonderful. The rehearsal for next month's luau performance is going on right now (way down the hall, even though it sounds like they are right outside my door). The faces of a bunch of 7-11 year old boys shining with pride and excitement as they prepare to perform for all who are willing to watch makes the tapping fingers all through my math lessons worth it.