Photo Booth Diaries

First photo on my new Macbook Pro, a few weeks before graduating high school!

Hipster Olive is Hipster.

Guess who has two thumbs and a driver's license...?

At the Wuksachi Lodge in Sequoia National Forest with my brother. Our last family vacation before I left for college.

A week or so after I moved into college, eating left over seaweed salad from lunch with my local family.

This class took over my life. 

Magic chemistry! Those are cherry tomatoes in graduated cylinders.

My freshman dorm room.

My favorite treat from the on-campus convenience store... mochi!

My feature in the school newspaper!

After apple picking with friends!

Owl hat my mom sent me for halloween.

Home for Thanksgiving with my brother and little cousin!

My cousin discovered photobooth...

My friend studying and snuggling her penguin, Sweets.

My clan symbols.

Decorated mug and free pinkberry in the student center. 

Me kissing Sweets!

Sunrise in the lounge.

Spring break at home! I made coconut macaroons.

In my summer apartment, drinking a smoothie.

California antics with my brother.

My favorite breakfast in the apartment.

Attempting to make mochi.

Illustrating Simon and Garfunkel lyrics.

Listening to simon and garfunkel. 

Back home after a summer in Boston, reunited with my vampire domo.

First night back in Boston. Resting up before moving in!

My bio lab partner and I mutating crystallin!

Studying for Japanese exam.

Package of candies from Finland! See my taste video here!

Autumn trees through the Mandel Center window.

Texting my way through Hurricane Sandy. 

xxolivexx

South Boston Abandoned Pier

Yesterday a friend and I went exploring in South Boston's piers to take photos of the city and abandoned buildings. The weather was perfect and gentle. We wandered by the Institute of Contemporary Art and into an abandoned dock. There was no one around and the dock was eerily abandoned. The only motion was the flutter of seagulls above and the ripple of the water below.

Two abandoned buildings rested by the docking area.  The ground around them was punctured with gaping holes. Someone (or someones) had been here before and left graffiti on the walls and smashed the sinks and toilets of a once-public restroom.

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Taste Buddies Episode 1: Japanese Snacks!

Hi everyone! Welcome to the first episode of my new series called Taste Buddies! 

In this video Kait and I try Japanese candies and snack foods. We bought everything from Cherry Mart on Newbury Street in Boston. I highly recommend you go there if you want to try some authentic Japanese snack food.

Here's a little behind the scenes look at our trip:

Recognize the Caramel Corn from my other Japanese taste test video?

So many choices....

Lots and lots of nori (seaweed)

All the men watching the Olympic divers in the train station... haha

This video was so much fun to make, I look forward to making more episodes in the future!

xxolivexx