blogging?

photo idea courtesy of martha gibbs: the contrast of the orange and the turquoise

This kid asked me to take his picture and surprised me with this agile move

the colors of these buildings were beautiful

these women asked me to take their pictures,
they were the only women in the slum that allowed
any of us to take their picture.

so...blogging? something i told myself i would never do because i have absolutely nothing to blog about. then again, who actually has anything to blog about? but, i'm going to give it a shot anyway. this blog is intended to document my travels and adventures abroad in the fall semester but i figured i would try it out until then, see if i'm any good. if i am...i'll keep blogging. if i'm not good...i'll still keep blogging. i guess the first order of business is deciding what type of blog this should be?? well, besides providing people with a detailed account of my escapades all over the UK and western europe--maybe a fashion blog? not so much fashion advice as what i'd want my wardrobe to look like if i had a never ending sum of money...maybe a food blog? or possibly just a blog of whatever i feel like blogging about? that idea suits me best, i think.  so here goes--i'll start with a few pictures from trip to China and India. the experience was eye-opening and i wouldn't have changed a bit of it except maybe the extreme heat we dealt with in India. the pictures above are only from India--they were all taken in a slum behind the Taj Mahal in Agra. the pictures speak for themselves and sum up the experiences we had in India. however, i cannot say that India was a trip full of lollipops and rainbows--we went through extreme heat, blatantly sweaty, staring men and a trip back to the US (from hell) but i can honestly look back on my time in China (different from India and basically a party and sightseeing) and India and see it as a once in a lifetime excursion that i'll never forget. so, how's that for my first day of blogging?