Leaving Atlanta tomorrow yay! Since I'm about to leave, I guess now is a good time as any to do my photo recap, so here goes!!

MLK Center:
Went to the MLK Center twice this summer. First, I went with fellow interns Jenny and Meghann. Here they are with Gandhi:


DZ Reunion
Had a mini DZ reunion with Akshara.


High Museum of Art
High Museum was pretty cool. They had a pretty interesting exhibit featuring pieces from the Louvre, and a great AnnieLiebowitz photo exhibit. Here I am with Jenny, in the cartoon house.


Braves v. RedSox!
Went to a Braves game with fellow interns Avi, Jenny and Meghann. Braves got killed by the Sox. Despite my hatred of all things Braves, I had to admit it was a pretty nice place to watch a game. I mean, it's no PacBell, but it was not bad.
Turner Field

Avi, Jenny and I

Nothing prettier than a baseball at night


Brunch!
Southerners like brunch. So do I.
Me at the FlyingBiscuit

My favorite breakfast at the WestEggCafe: grits and fried green tomato wrap.


US SocialForum and Jo's visit!!
US SocialForum came to town in late June. It was crazy, thousands of nutty socialists and hippies all gathered to protest about everything and mobilize behind their crunchy banner of progressive politics. Plus people like Joanna. It was fun to see. And fun to hang out with Jo!
The big march started at the Georgia state capital.

My co-workers and I were legal observers. Not much to observe. Mainly, we sweated, cause it was hot as ddong. Avi wrote a protest message on his fan- "stop the heat."

The interns and two of of the staff lawyers

Korean Against War and NeoLiberalism. I have no idea how to say neoliberalism in Korean. I barely know what it means in English.

Jo and I after the march.

At the Vortex, enjoying beer and a hot dog

Jo and I went to the King Center again. This is the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where MLK, Jr. grew up, later came back to pastor at, and where his funeral was held. It was amazing going in, and imagining him preaching.


Civil Rights Tour: Montgomery and Birmingham, Alabama
Meghann, Jenny and I did a mini civil rights tour, spending a day driving through Alabama to visit Montgomery and Birmingham. Yup, HannahYu was in Alabama!!
We started out the day at the RosaParks museum in Montgomery. She was a little lady who helped change the world.

Next stop, EbenezerBaptistChurch, where MLK, Jr. served as pastor and one of the places where the MontgomeryBusBoycott was planned.

CivilRightsMuseum. This memorial was designed by MayaLin.

The 16th StreetBaptistChurch in Birmingham, where four little girls were killed when a bomb was thrown into the basement of the church one Sunday morning. It's right across the street from the CivilRightsInstitute, which has on display part of the FreedomRider bus that was bombed, and the door of the jail cell where MLK, Jr. penned "LetterfromaBirminghamJail." The whole trip was a reminder of what happened in this country 50 years ago, and how the civil rights movement brought out the best and worst in people. It was also a reminder to me of how much of the civil rights movement was led by the church and by Christians.

Can't really read it, but the sign says Talledega. Yup, we passed by the Talledega MotorSpeedway!!!


HarryPotter rocks my face off
Had a lot of fun watching HarryPotter5 with my boss and his fiancee.
Me and Deneta proudly wearing our HP shirts.

My boss wearing his HP glasses and his fiancee in her Dumbledore'sArmy shirt.

Rocking the 3-D glasses


Birthday weekend!
I turned 26.
With Jenny and Meghann at dinner

Then we went out and they got me drunk as a skunk

After a day of recovering, we went to the Cyclorama. What's the Cyclorama you ask? Why, it's the world's largest historical painting!! Imagine a HUGE ASS painting, on the walls of a big ass circular room. Then imagine sitting on bleachers, and then having the bleachers rotate while music plays, so you can get a full and complete experience of the Battle of Atlanta, brought to life on canvas. It was crazy. CRAZY AWESOME.
Meghann and Jenny next to a civil war cannon

Meghann and I in front of some famous train that did something cool during the CivilWar.


Stone Mountain
Stone Mountain is this big ass stone mountain and park near Atlanta. It's also the site of a big ass carving of four confederate generals, carved into the mountain, and the world's largest laser light show.
The carving

The light show was coompletely not what I was expecting. I was thinking it was going to be a PinkFloyd, psychedelic, abstract light show. Instead, they played pop songs, with very very very VERY literal laser illustrations to accompany. Like, if the song mentioned barbecue stain on his white tshirt, they projected laser cartoon images of a dude wearing a white tshirt, and a little laser barbecue stain. After the pop songs, they played a collection of Georgia songs (still with laser illustrations), and then they played a song about the American soldier (laser illustrations and picture projections), and then they played AmericatheBeautiful, then the BattleHymnoftheRepublic, then Dixie, then I'mProudtobeanAmerican. As one of my coworkers said- they might as well have wrapped us American flags and pummeled us with apple pie.

That's it for now. Pictures from New York and my last couple days here will come later, I'm too tired. And I have to pack!! I hate packing!!!