Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Finals Week / 聂可来!

12/16 - 12/17/2008

[The first in a series of several recounting various pre-
and interstitial holiday activities.]

Tuesday12.16.2008


Image002
Coffee with Stephen at Koffee Too.

Image003
Afterwards, heading over to CCL to get work done; run into some
other friends.

Image005
Of course.

Image006
^Right, Liz?

Image008
Vans Off the Wall Sk-8 Hi's (a gift from Paco).

Image009
Afterwards, that evening, a quick dinner with Ray.

My old friend/Chinese teacher from Beijing, Nie Ke, was visiting the
Northeast for a few days, so a bunch of her old students got together
for Thai food.
Image012
Devin; 聂老师

Image016
Esther!

Image017

Image018
And my 老同学 Yang Jaeyoung too...


Wednesday12.17.2008

Image019
In TD.

Image021
聂克和她朋友.

Image025
很正式的老师们...

Image026
A Gutenberg Bible in Beinecke Library.

Image028
Beinecke's core collection: the manuscripts contained
therein are so rare that, in case of a fire, the whole case
is automatically sealed off, and oxygen removed from
the environment in order to protect them.

Image029
Audubon.

Image030

Image031
After walking around campus for some time, we
headed down to the Chaplain's Office to rest up and,
naturally, grab some free ice creams.

Image032

Image033

I departed, for a time, to catch up with a friend over lunch.

Image034
And then more friends arrived!

Image036

Image037
Lunch Part Two: Emily...

Image038
...and Ben.

After my official lunch meetings, I headed over to
BAR to catch Nie Ke and her other friends and ex-
students.

Image039

Image040
杜克项目去年的学生。

Image041
三位老师们

After BAR, the 三位中国人 and I headed over to Yale's British Art
Gallery, an institution of which, throughout my undergraduate
career, I had never availed myself.

Image042
Some dope art of Nature.

Image043

Image044
可爱的小狗。

Image045
This joint was fly. In my opinion it is about Society.

Image046
As the sun set, the view of Street Hall on the corner of Old Campus,
from the vantage point of the 2nd floor of the British Art Gallery.

The setting sun brought us, via a quick detour through
the local Hong Kong grocery, to the Yale Chinese
Language Department's offices.

Image047
Them biscuits flow freely.

After chatting with the ladies for a brief while longer, I walked them
over to their parked car and headed back over to Old Campus for one
final student meeting.

Image050
The Durfee Christmas lights.

Image052
Ms. Lee a/k/a MeLEEsa.

Image053
More Thai food, naturally.

Image054

[Next: hitting the studio, dinner with Liz, and a trip through New York]

No comments: