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Morocco Photos

This isn’t news if you kept up with La Route Libre, but… I went to Morocco this summer. Anyway, today I’m entering a few of my pictures in a contest run by the study abroad company I went with, and did some minor photo editing (brightness, contrast, saturation) before sending them in (the form on the website wasn’t working but that’s a different story) so I figured I’d upload them here just for funsies. You’ve seen ’em before but these are the richer versions. I guess you could say I consider these the best photos of the trip? I have other favorites too of course.

Someday I’ll have a nice shiny expensive camera that takes pictures this rich with little to no post-editing :)

Morocco Submission 1 SL
I tried to take a discreet, candid photo and the man looked up as I snapped it.
Morocco Submission 2 SL
Taken at Medersa Ben Yoursef in Marrakech.
Morocco Submission 3 SL
In Morocco, it’s like cats outnumber people. Taken at the Chellah ruins; over 40 cats have free run of the place.

Chili Success!

My #1 goal with this recipe was to use up the leftover green peppers and onion I bought last week for fajitas. (Sidebar: it looks like I totally forgot to put in a picture of the fajitas! They were delicious!)

My #2 goal was to make chili delicious enough for me but mild enough for my oh-so-white parents. I think I struck a happy balance–even my mom approved!

Mmmmmm.....
Mmmmmm.....

Ingredients: tomatoes, green peppers, red onion, kidney beans, corn, garlic, ground beef, chili seasonings. If you want details of any of the meals I make don’t be afraid to ask in the comments section!!

Also, this made enough for like 8 people. So I have a ton leftover. If you live in the Temecula area, call me up and come on over to have a bowl with me :)

To the Nations

Over the past three weeks I have opened the heavy doors in the back of my mind and dusted off my web design boots. I haven’t worked on web sites since, oh, probably 2005 and boy am I rusty!  Anyway, back then I was totally an elitist and only designed sites in HTML and CSS. I am so humbled now that I have a hard time remembering things that used to come second nature to me. So I’m using the WYSIWYG site builder that comes with our web package.

That said, as part of my internship with the Missions director at my church, I have pieced together little by little a missions section for our church website. Every week I add new pages and new links to it and I’m actually becoming rather pleased with it. The first week was a struggle but now when I work on it every couple days I keep getting inspired and adding new things.

The main page is found here at Gateway Missions. We have a team going to Haiti (that I was on at one point until I realized I couldn’t realistically miss that much school) so I made a team HQ page here. Today I made this unimpressive little number–not so exciting on its own but I am enjoying adding more and more layers to this growing section of the site.

That, and I get to put some knowledge from my International Studies classes to work! Yay for real-life application of school idas!