Alex Schmidley, Natalie Pierce and I totally succeed at a jump photo at St. Andrews Golf Course in Scotland.
I can't think of a more appropriate day to post this picture. For those that don't go to Pepperdine (or any university for that matter), this week has been our last week of classes for the semester. Today was a particular milestone for me, as I had my last 8am class AND my last Friday class ever! Having finished my second to last semester in my school life, it really makes me think about the great memories that I have had, not just at Pepperdine, but in my life in general. So when this 30 Day Photography Challenge said I had to post a picture of my favorite memory, I knew it was going to be a particularly tough task.
I don't mean to brag or sound arrogant (with two r's haha), but I have had a lot of great experiences in my life which have given me a ton of great memories. It's just really hard to pick just one. But I tried thinking about the best time that I have had in my life, and obviously chose my time abroad living in London. I can't think of a better time...can you? Since I had that narrowed down, I tried to think of my favorite memory of my time in London...which was almost impossible. I've ridden a camel...I've paraglided off a Swiss Alp...I've been to a Champions League match at Stamford Bridge (Chelsea blows). How am I supposed to choose? But then I thought about one of my favorite pictures that I took during my time in Europe...and after some deliberation, I realized that the picture essentially summed up my great time on that trip, but also my great time abroad in general.
That picture, of course, is the one above. I was on a trip with my friends Shannon Rooney, Alex and Natalie (who were probably my best friends in the London house) to Scotland. We were visiting Glasgow, St. Andrews and Edinburgh and the entire trip was just a really fun time. We found cool things to do, found some really good food (haggis and Wannaburger anyone?), and best of all we didn't want to kill each other by the end of the trip (which was a rarity for some of the weekend trips that year). The day that we went to St. Andrews, I just remember it being so much like Western Washington. It was so green (except for the occasional white speckles of sheep) and the sky was so blue and the water was just right there. Naturally we had to take an obligatory jump picture, and I don't know what it is (maybe the angle that Shannon the photog is at), but the three of us look like were literally six feet off the ground. It's just such as awesome picture to capture a really awesome trip and time in my life.
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