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First Final Exam at CU

James Flores — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:20:03 +0000

So it's 12:16AM as I'm writing this now. I have my first final exam at 10:30AM. It shouldn't be too bad as we are just doing some group work. Tuesday's exams will be killers because I have one at 7:30AM then one at 7:30PM. I've studied for both briefly but need to read over the notes I've written all tomorrow after my exam finishes at 1PM. I'm glad that the semester is nearly over for me. I will have 2 days to hang out with my friends before I get picked up on Friday by Julie to spend time with her and her family before leaving Saturday afternoon. I've had a really great time here and I can't wait to come back. Todor's friend, Marisol is also here so its going to be great once I finish my exams and we can all hang out before the grueling flight home. Well, until after exams, expect some fun party pics of celebration once I get my head all through this! Wish me luck (though I hope I won't need it)

Live panorama view of Boulder!

James Flores — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:27:01 +0000

For work, we have permission to use these webcam images of Boulder. It is so beautiful.
The link is: http://csel.cs.colorado.edu/~floresjl/webcam/ and here is a little sample to what I woke up to this morning. (Edit: my script may be temperamental at times)

A visit through Todor’s iPhone

James Flores — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:28:49 +0000

Ever since Todor got his iPhone and with the times I've forgotten my camera, he took some photos. Since some of them went back a while, I'm going to post to you some of the highlights and memories captured with that tiny camera. Enjoy!

Testing the camera!

Mohit and I on a random walk through Pearl St.

I was so tempted to buy it, even if I didn't own a Playstation

Pretending to pack my bags and leave...

The Hookah House, Todor style

Preparing for a ski trip

Chris was cold one night so we shrouded him in newspaper

Such a wonderful attempt at reading that book Chris!

I'm in the process of collecting more pictures from people so come back soon and see if I actually made the effort to put more up

14 days to make a difference

James Flores — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:39:21 +0000

14 days is all I have left in the United States of America. It seems that everything went by amazingly quickly because I enjoyed myself too much. I was looking over some photos when I first arrived and I really would like to rewind the clock and revisit it again. It was amazing how I experienced the end of summer, how it was so hot and dry. And now, 8 days into winter, I've experienced the cold snowy weather. I've seen the green trees change color and then finally lose all their leaves. So now all I have left is 14 days. Even though I've done a lot I still feel that a lot of things are missing in this experience, not to mention the last 2 assessment tasks I have to complete, exams, packing my bags and organizing a lot of other stuff that needs to be taken care of before I leave. So enough about that...it snowed yesterday, just after the campus had dried up from the last fall...it was great. Here are some cool pictures.

Good old Hallett Hall, looking so majestic in this one

Walking north towards the Engineering Center

Kittredge pond looks so much cleaner when it's cold

The side where Todor lives, on the right is Buckingham

The first significant snowfall in Boulder!

James Flores — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:13:03 +0000

Here are a few pictures of snow on campus! It was way thicker a few days before I took these photos apparently. It snowed Wednesday last week I think and I arrived back on Friday from New York. There's not much snow laying around now but it is going to snow again on Wednesday.

This is my favorite picture of the Flatirons

Quite childish, I know...

Snowman!!!

American Football – CU vs. Missouri

James Flores — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:39:39 +0000

Last Saturday I went to my first ever American Football game, CU vs. Missouri. Of course, I had no clue what was going on but I just focused on which direction CU was heading in. The game runs in short bursts and it seemed like an eternity between points. However, the crowd entertainment was just gold! The first few minutes saw CU doing fine, then it was all downhill from there. Oh well, it was a great experience...and this isn't to say without pictures!

Marching band!

Players on the field

War paint wooooo!

Score just before we left

Super Target is the place to be

James Flores — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:45:17 +0000

I've been getting a lack of sleep the last few days, mainly due to homework and I've also been enjoying myself a bit. Last night Chris, Todor, Nastenka and I didn't go to bed until late because we were watching some Mexican movie. It was a weird movie though. This morning after class, Todor had an urge to go to Costco again. I decided to tag along and we enjoyed some of the world famous Costco pizza! We then went to Ross and then Super Target. Super Target is sooo cool, it's huge. I ended up buying a CU jersey for tomorrows game and a button-up shirt for tonight...apparently we are headed to Denver to party like no tomorrow

Super Target - my new favorite store

There are still more registers than you see here

Look at that snow just past Boulder!

CU-Halloween 2007

James Flores — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:53:58 +0000

No further discussion is necessary. Visit the entire gallery here.

Look at those cute cat ears!

Just chillin'

Time for sleep

Another round of ice skating

James Flores — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:22:43 +0000

Last weekend I headed over with the international students to attend Salvo's ice skating idea. I didn't look so much like a novice this time because I had skated a few times before it. I still am pretty unstable though. Garrett came along and apparently he couldn't skate, considering he owned a pair of ice skates. He also forgot to mention that one of his parents is a speed skater. Anyway, as usual photos from the event:

Trying not to fall over

The amazing Salvo!

The "Garrett" pose

Anastasiya’s 19th Birthday

James Flores — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:03:24 +0000

Today (October 29 for all you in Australia ) is my dear friend Anastasiya's 19th birthday. Last night Todor and I celebrated with her by taking her out to dinner, followed by a movie on 29th Street. The presents that we got her were hiliarious. Todor and I went to Target and got two gift bags. He got her a movie, some chocolates and something cheesy - string cheese hahaha. Lame (:P). I got her a nice box of chocolates and a bottle of wine...non-alcoholic, since she's 19 - 19 year olds can do anything here ahahaha. So anyway I got some nice pictures of the night. You can see the entire gallery here.

Waiting for the bus

We celebrated as the clock struck midnight

Such a quality bottle of wine