Sorry for the Slowness
Ok so the last post hasn't been a very good cronacle I was sort of avoiding updating this because i had gotten a little homesick this week with everyone back at school and me realizing that i would miss this whole semester.
Classes are going well enough we got our midterm grades back this week. The grading system here is very strange and I don't really understand it, but I was the one screwing up the curve in one class and in the other the teacher promised all of her American students an "A" at the beginning of the semester and my grades were well above mean so thats good enough for me.
I am one of the 2 main editors for our anouncement videos and last week Andy figured out how do green screening and bought all the supplies so its going to be allot of fun trying to master some new video editing techniques this week. Andy's computer broke leaving me with most of the AV stuff for the next 2 weeks from what i understand.
Ok now for the monkey story from Cambodia. We had hired a van driver for the day that took us where ever we wanted to go. Between two of the temples there was a troop of monkeys beside the road so we told the driver to pull over. There were a few other Thai there and we bought 2 bunches of banana's from two little girls that were selling them. At first we just threw a banana or two towards the monkeys and they grabbed them and ran off. Then I held a banana out towards a monkey that was on a near by tree. Slowly he climbed a little closer towards me and reached out. Then he grabbed ahold of the banana and yanked it out of my hand, backed of a foot or two and ate it. So from this point on it was a game to see if you could actually get a picture of someone giving the banana to the monkey. It was really hard to get a great picture because the aproach was slow but they took the banana pretty quickly out of your hand. Sadly my camera freaked out and deleted 2 great pictures that Travis had taken of me handing a banana to on of the monkeys. We did however get to keep the pictures of the fat monkey. It was one of the funniest things ever. This one monkey must have weighed as much as 3 or 4 of the regular sized monkeys. He even struggled when he climbed up the tree, it was really work for him, where all the others just jumped and bounded up and around in the trees. Well maybe it was sad and funny at the same time.
Thats it for now I have to run and take care of a few things before market and Met Angun tonight.
Classes are going well enough we got our midterm grades back this week. The grading system here is very strange and I don't really understand it, but I was the one screwing up the curve in one class and in the other the teacher promised all of her American students an "A" at the beginning of the semester and my grades were well above mean so thats good enough for me.
I am one of the 2 main editors for our anouncement videos and last week Andy figured out how do green screening and bought all the supplies so its going to be allot of fun trying to master some new video editing techniques this week. Andy's computer broke leaving me with most of the AV stuff for the next 2 weeks from what i understand.
Ok now for the monkey story from Cambodia. We had hired a van driver for the day that took us where ever we wanted to go. Between two of the temples there was a troop of monkeys beside the road so we told the driver to pull over. There were a few other Thai there and we bought 2 bunches of banana's from two little girls that were selling them. At first we just threw a banana or two towards the monkeys and they grabbed them and ran off. Then I held a banana out towards a monkey that was on a near by tree. Slowly he climbed a little closer towards me and reached out. Then he grabbed ahold of the banana and yanked it out of my hand, backed of a foot or two and ate it. So from this point on it was a game to see if you could actually get a picture of someone giving the banana to the monkey. It was really hard to get a great picture because the aproach was slow but they took the banana pretty quickly out of your hand. Sadly my camera freaked out and deleted 2 great pictures that Travis had taken of me handing a banana to on of the monkeys. We did however get to keep the pictures of the fat monkey. It was one of the funniest things ever. This one monkey must have weighed as much as 3 or 4 of the regular sized monkeys. He even struggled when he climbed up the tree, it was really work for him, where all the others just jumped and bounded up and around in the trees. Well maybe it was sad and funny at the same time.
Thats it for now I have to run and take care of a few things before market and Met Angun tonight.
posted by jmpingspyder at 2:25 AM
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here monkey... here monkey monkey...
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