Parade of Nations

Alex Sowieja — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:13:29 +0000

Last Saturday (yeah, I know, I’m slow) was Parade of Nations, which is a fairly big deal around these parts. Basically what happens is a whole lot of people arranges themselves into nationalities and other groups (there were three marching bands) and walk down through Hancock and Houghton. You may be expecting a bunch of pictures of different nationalites and interesting groups, and if you were then you will be dissapointed! I was actually in the parade as part of South Korea (through my TaeKwonDo class) so I was too busy kicking things and jumping around and getting small children to kick our paddles to take any picture of the parade itself. I do, however, have some shots from before the whole thing got started.

It is incredibly difficult to capture the flashier kicks right as they connect. The leg snaps so fast that timing the shutter press is a matter of skill and luck put together. This is the closest I got with a roundhouse…

Jumping Roundhouse

…a spinning crescent…

Spinning Crescent

…and an axe kick.

Axe

And that’s all the “actiony” shots I managed to get that didn’t completely suck. I also got this picture of the Malaysian (I think) dragon dancers. It has nothing to do with what I was doing, but I thought it was pretty cool. It marched directly ahead of us.

Dragon Dancers

Finger Painting 101

Alex Sowieja — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:36:29 +0000

Our hall just hosted a finger painting session for some peculiar reason I’ve yet to work out. There were a bunch of office paper sized sheets of various colors and one massively sized piece of paper. Guess which one my group and I seized? We broke apaprt into two teams (Steve was on mine!) and simply started drawing random things in an effort to “attack” each other. Nobody really won in the end, but it was prety fun overall.

The Whole Thing

Evil Tree!

The Yellow Submarine

Twin Dragons Breath Fire

Radiant Salmon » dragon

Parade of Nations

Finger Painting 101