Summer 2006 in Larryville

What is summer but watercolours dipping into the Ocean,
A Sudden Ray of Hope and a cure for pain for a panic-stricken mess,
A soccer ball dipping into the net, ringing the sweat out of your shorts so wet
as if you'd gone swimming?

Bunny ice cream, Watermelon salad, Cherry Limeades from the drive-in,
Struggling to consciousness as dawn breaks
while underneath a slide in a park with bark in your hair,
Rolling around in the neighbor's front yard after watching the sun rise.

Laughin' and singin' till the early hours of the morn,
It's heaven - a place where nothing happens,
It's a kiss from a new flame, a trip to the moon.

It's music, it's poetry, it's life.

La fiesta de cumpleaños de Rocío

Rocío is the lovely gallega that I co-teach with. Being from Galicia, we ate some mariscos -lemon-garlic shrimp skewers and mussels in a white wine sauce- and other Mediterranean foods- melanzanne parmaggiano, bruschetta, tortilla española, etc.

English Invasion part 2

They came, they saw but they certainly didn't conquer. Here we are checking out the campus.

Here Stuart (aka Donnie) and brother Rob are inside the campanile. I'm not allowed to walk through the campanile until I graduate. Guess I won't know what that experience is like for a while.
Stuart and I with Memorial Stadium in the background.
There's something about being in 100 degree weather that makes English lads want to stick their thumbs up.

The Lakies

100 degrees, 110 with the heat index. It's time for the lake. Time for beering and floating.
















The hardest chore of the day was figuring out how to make your beer float along side of you.
Ghost man Rob.
Soccer team shot with the English and the locals.