I’m not sure how I’m going to write
anything about those 3 weeks I had on vacation last month. How do you verbalize
an experience that was indescribable? What words exist that can contain all the
emotions felt and lessons learned? I shall have to try, however, as people keep
asking “When will you have something up on your blog?” or “How soon will your
website be updated so I can see the pictures?”
Thankfully for me – although not so good
for anybody else – my website won’t be updated until fall. My brother is my
“Computer Geek” and is the one who creates all those fantastic pages for me;
but he works all summer long and cannot get to it until construction season
comes to an end. This gives me plenty of time to come up with a plan, however:
I will have all summer to sift through all 1,480 photos to choose just the
right ones and then (somehow) articulate the events corresponding to the
pictures. Until then, I get to create both my photo book (to match the photo
books I have on all my other Earthwatch Expeditions) as well as a Power-Point
Presentation on it.
I haven’t decided if I’ll create my photo
book first or my power-point presentation first: either one will help the
other, so it doesn’t really matter on that account. I should do the power-point
first because I’ll be needing it soon for a presentation that I’m currently
scheduling – but I have so much fun creating the book, I might just do it first
anyway.
ShutterFly is the program I use for making
my photo books. They do a good job and are fairly easy to work with. I’m hoping
that my fellow Earthwatch volunteers will let me use a few of their photos for
the book, since I don’t have any of myself. People keep telling me I should
include myself in my books/presentations/webpages – but I never remember to
actually take a picture of myself until after the event is over.
And see there: I’ve managed to write a post
about my vacation without having actually said ANYTHING about the vacation! Is
that talent, or what?
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