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1. Happy Thanksgiving, y'all. I am eating turkey here. Don't you even worry. 
2. Just about everybody's gone for the Thanksgiving weekend. They are all over the Europe, me, meanwhile staying put in Rome because I'm traveling afterwards and I am happy to say my final project will be wrap by tomorrow and I will have about week and half of free time. I really don't know what I'm going to do with that time. Maybe I'll just scream, 'In your face!!!' to everybody and forget about making friends. 
3. So Ellen's kids, Mason and Cole, are here enjoying our last few weeks in this eternal city with us. Mason is 4th grader and Cole is 9th grader and I gotta say they are the most sweetest kid I've ever met! Seriously, if my mom was here she probably said, 'I wish you were acting like them when you were their age'. I don't think I can't even act like that well now like they are doing now. They are making us look bad! They both play soccer, which is awesome because I'm a big soccer nut. Ellen, Mason, Cole, Serrah and I went out to this famous gelato shop by Trevi Fountain last night. Mason kept on saying, 'OMG, this banana ice cream is sooooooooooooooooo good'. He also told us a hilarious pantheon knock knock jokes, it was like the best joke I've heard since I got here. Yeah, this kid is pretty adorable. 
4. I think I should miss home by now but not really. I'm even more bummed out about the fact that I'm living this place in about month. That's what's more sad about missing home. 
5. Hot water is back!!!!! WHAT! WHAT!!
6. I have less than 4 films now. Gotta buy more, I guess. What, you think I'm going to take digital pictures in Paris? Eugine Atget will rolling out of his grave if I done that. Hell naw and I ain't gonna let Stockholm down either.  
7. So yesterday, I was on like conference marathon. I met Ellen earlier in the morning then right after that I met up with Tim Roda, a former UW art grad student who's in Italy for an artist residency, and later that day I also met Lucy. While Ellen and Lucy took a look at my final project, Tim took a look at my photo slides that I brought from home. I like to get people's opinion with what I'm doing and want to know where I should improve and all that. From Susan to Ellen to Tim to Lucy to anyone who looked at my work said this one thing: 'find your voice'. All of them said exact same thing at the end. I think I start to know what that means. I don't know if I have a voice yet but I know what it means now. I didn't know what the hell they were talking about back then but it's starting to make senses now. I like it. Tim also gave me some really good advice on how to push my work to next level and some awesome line up of people I should meet when I go back. I can't never stop this thing and I don't even want to. 
8. I want to go where sun is bright and water is cool. To the place with waves are crashing. I want to go to that place.