Hara Krishna!

Hara Krishna everyone! On Saturday Taron and I met Vanessa near Logan and we rode together down to Spanish Forks Utah and met Tevan and Lanae at the Hindu temple for the Holi Festival, the Festival of Colors!

Before...

After!

Hindu food!

I think the Lion ate the Lamb...

You know the expression, "March in like a Lion and out like a Lamb." Well its the end of March and its windy and snowing pretty good outside! I don't think any lamb is gonna make it to Rexburg this year, that Lion is just going to keep marching around!

San Fransisco!

In order to graduate art students are required to take a travel class. Basically its a class meant just to travel somewhere to broaden our horizons and so we can understand the business world outside of school. I wanted to go on a Illustration trip to either L.A. or New York because that those are the biggest places for Illustrators. I was told there was going to be a New York trip this winter a few semesters back so I was planning on going on that and touring all the publishing companies and learning about the industry. But when I went to sign up for the class it wasn't there. So I ended up going on a fine arts trip to San Fransisco! We visited museums and ate a lot of fun food. It was so much fun but didn't really benefit me the way an Illustration trip would. Here are a few pictures I took. I didn't take too many with other people because when your in a group picture the person taking the picture is already loaded down with everyone's cameras and I didn't want to add mine too. Plus I broke my camera halfway through the trip. We are going to share photos later and when I get those pictures then I'll post them too!

This is just a cool building in Reno

One of my favorite parts of the trip was riding the cable cars through the roller coaster streets of San Fransisco.

We ate breakfast several times at a cute little french bakery called La Boulange. They had some really yummy pastries and quiches.

The Clay pot in China town.

The Japanese Tea Gardens were really beautiful!

Me with Buddha and a really beautiful pathway (this pic doesn't do it justice, my head got in the way.)

An old Japanese man practicing his Tai Chi...and Brother Geddes thought he should practice his Tai Chi as well...

De Young museum (where I broke my camera. =( )

I had a really great time in San Fransisco! Out of all the cities I've visited, San Fransisco was definitely my favorite, such an interesting city! I love all the diversity this city held from the diversity in architecture to the diversity in its people and the different cultures there.

Keeping you posted. =)

As most of you know I will be graduating this April. I'll have a degree in Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Illustration and a cluster in Graphic Design and Culinary Arts. I have no current plans for a job as an Illustrator quite yet (that's another blog I should write about all my feelings as my education as an artist) but I got a job as a full time receptionist at the office here in Rexburg for Salt Lake Express.

I'm not particularly excited about this job but with jobs so hard to find in Rexburg I am very grateful that I was able to line up a full time job to pay the bills when I graduate while Taron goes to School. I was really nervous about finding a job that would pay enough for me to pay for rent. I was actually expecting to have to find two part time jobs since readily available full time jobs are almost non-existant here. This job will also have stability unlike a lot of jobs around here as well. If you do a good job they want you to stick around for years and years and years if they can help it since it takes so much effort and money to train and get employees in the groove of things with a good working relationship with the other receptionist and the bus drivers. I also hear they give good raises if you work hard to try and persuade you to stay around. So I know that as long as I work hard I will have a full time job until Taron graduates and a job that will not go out of business. So I guess what I've been trying to say is Boring job=stability and rent until Taron graduates. Oh and I also get done at three every day so that gives me plenty of time to keep working on my art and try to build up a good portfolio and maybe even get some odd jobs here and there.

So that's what I'll be doing for the next couple of years. Taron will be quitting his current full time job at Prosper and will be starting school back up this spring semester in April and working part time at the ropes course here on campus. I'm excited for him to get out of the office and start working outside at the ropes course where he loves to be. Taron is planning on switching to the fast track program so he can keep going to school while I work and hopefully graduate in 3 or 4 semesters plus an internship. After that its all up in the air, we will go where the jobs take us.