Skiing - Spring Break 2007

Tuesday, March 13th, Uncle J and I rented a car and drove up to Killington, VT. Wednesday morning we hit the slopes.
It was warm and Wednesday, then cold and snowing Thursday and Friday. A nor'easter storm began Friday afternoon and we drove back to Boston Friday night in a blizzard.
I'm in the green jacket, UJ's in the blue. The following are from both of our cameras, a Canon Powershot and Quickshot.

Video Roundup (press Play):

(Some photos taken by Jonathan Fallet.)

Skiing - Spring Break '06

Saturday March 4th, drove up to New Hampshire with Corey. Stayed in townhouse with cool friends of Corey's mom.
Sunday March 5th, skied at Attitash, NH. Cracked a ski on collision with ice block.
Monday, rented new skis, skied at Sunday River, Maine. Tuesday, back to Attitash, then back home.
All said, it was a week of good friends, good snow, good beer and good times.

(Photos taken by me and Corey Phelan)

Corey and me

Me

Me

Corey

Corey

HardCore

Just glad it wasn't my leg...

Tired after 3 days

Back home

Family Trip - Summer 2006

In August 2006, my family flew in from Israel for a 2-week road trip through the East Coast and Midwest. I joined them in Boston, continuing to Niagara Falls, Detroit, Chicago and Washington.
In Detroit we attended our cousins' bar mitzvas, but did not take any photos because the guests were observing the Sabbath.

Ode to 35mm film...
These photos were taken with my wonderful 35mm Minolta 303si SLR. Upon returning to Boston, however, I finally joined the times and bought a digital camera, so this will be my last album taken with 35mm film.

Boston | Niagara | Chicago | Washington, DC

Boston

Street show at Fanueil Hall

Boston Harbor

Custom House, Boston's first skyscraper

Niagara Falls

The Hershey Store

Chicago

Millenium Park

The Bean

Grandpa grilling

The back yard

The view from the back yard

Washington, DC

Athena in the Library of Congress

Photos April 2006 (Boston, Motorcycle)

Photos taken by Dominic Reuter, photographer for the Daily Free Press, on 4/19/2006.

Florida - January '06

January 2006, went to Florida for Pop-Pop's 80th birthday party.

Me and Jon

The boys' candy volcano

Anti-climactic

Nathan

So many cameras...

Bennett

Nathan

The clan

Me with Bennett (bottom) and Nathan

Shuffleboard champ

Winter Break / New Years (Israel) '05

New Years | Noga's Drawings | Me & Benji C

December 24-29, 2004 - in Florida. Didn't use my camera.

December 30 - flew to Israel.

Weekend of New Years 2005: chilled with the gang at Yoel's house. Shabbat / New Years / chillout weekend. Went crazy with the camera.

I had the camera, so there are no pictures of me.

January 14 - flew back to Boston.

New Years '05

Yoel

Adin

Levi

Benji (aka Benjito Caplan)

Miri

Matan

Ravid

Tamir

Yoel and the ladies

In the "Fart"

Noga

Noga's Drawings

Disclaimer: the drawings shown below are not mine; they are made by Noga (don't know his last name), who is pictured above.

An Optical illusion - notice the man with the hat in the center -

this one...

But look closely...

See the girl...?

(Go back and look at that again...)

Notice the number 420 in the middle.
It appears (sometimes hidden) in every picture.

Apparently the entire song "Wish You Were Here" is in this

"Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"

"Gradually Losing My Marbles"

I'm not sure which way is up...

(All works in progress)

Two weeks later - hanging out with my best friend Benji Caplan before flying back to Boston:

Benji & Me

(yes, we have the same name, but I had it first...)

Me with my new earring

Benji Caplan (in case you didn't read above)

Lemon nargila (hookah)

Flew back to Boston on January 14th...

Photos taken by Ben Buckman with Minolta Dynax 303si camera.
Do not copy without permission.

Cross-Country Road Trip - Summer '05

The travellers

Salt Lake City, Utah: shady.

Little did they know...

Always.

We stopped in Chicago to visit the University, where Colin did a first-session summer program.

The Mississippi.

New York, New York. What a wonderful town.

Me

We never did figure out what that was.

Abe looking down the road for the rest of his body.

Cheyenne, Wyoming. 7 AM mist. Land of the planet's best peach pie and largest waitresses.

Honestly, I didn't realize she was reading a book until I looked at the developed photo.

Speed limits are more guidelines than rules.

Thank you.

My favorite shot from the whole trip.

The photographer with his Minolta Dynax 303si (35mm).

We stopped in NYC to visit Colin's girlfriend Amy. Dinner at an amazing Chinest buffet in Queens.

Boston, Florida, Illinois - Summer '05

The summer began fittingly with gloomy weather and torrential rains that seemed to last for weeks.
Downtown Boston..

June consisted of 2 summer courses, working, sailing and scuba diving. Not that many photos. Was glad to be done with classes, finally.
Then the summer really started... The 4th of July!!!
In Cambridge on the bank of the Charles...

July 10th. Flew to Florida. 10 days of hot, humid bliss.

Back in Boston. Went to a Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) concert.
Fantastic concert, but out of all the photos taken from 100 yards away in the dark, only these two came out.

August. Flew to Chicago. Highland Park with Grandma and Grandpa for a week of sailing and relaxation.

The Aleph One

The Captain

The First Mate

A day trip to the Milwaulkee Art Museum. Designed by architect Santiago Calatrava.

Glass by Chihouli

From Chicago, I flew to Sacramento, to go on a cross-country road trip...

White Mountains, NH - February '05

Backpacking with the BU Outing Club, Feb 18-20 '05

Trip Synopsis:

Left Friday afternoon from Boston, drove to Franconia Notch, hiked in the dark to Lincoln Woods, set up base camp, dinner.
Saturday, hiked up Franconia Brook Trail.
Sunday, hiked up Pemiquasit River.
Average temperature during the day 15 F, Night 0 F. (Kept warm by many layers of non-cotton clothes and the girls' smiles.)
Returned to Boston Sunday night.

Field

Steve

Amit

Sarah

Kat

Drew

Me (terribly un-photogenic as always)

Asked to describe the trip in 4 words, Kat said, "Sun, Cold, Drew Sleeps"

Base camp

Me taking a picture (Field took this one)

Hot cocoa around the campfire

After crossing the treacherous river

Thru my ski goggles

Hey, it keeps me warm...

Backpacking in the Presidential Range, NH - October '04

Backpacking Trip with the BU Outing Club, Oct 9-11 '04

Photos Boston Freshman Year '04-05

1st semester | 2nd semester

1st Semester (Fall 2004)

After my first mountain bike race at UNH
(from left: Adrian, me, Corey, Nick)

My corner

2nd Semester (2005)

I got back from winter break and rearranged my little space:

(New mini-fridge on the top-left, coffee machine in the middle)

(Notice the printer efficiently placed in the corner; also the guitar which I intend to learn)
(Out of the picture is the cardboard box- turned kitchen table/cabinet which is now a crucial fixture)

Moi

My feeble attempts at a fort before...

...the plow ran it over

Sahil

My building, Sleeper Hall

What I live on

New York - August 04

In August 2004 I moved from Israel to the USA to study in Boston. On the way I stopped in New York and NJ for 10 days.

UJ in his office

Jonathan & Eurydice

The Brooklyn Museum

Biking from Manhattan to Coney Island

About to cross the Brooklyn Bridge

Coney Island

Church of St John the Divine

The Gugenheim

The Hudson River

My dream car, Mazda Miata MX-5

The Cloisters

Israel - Summer '04

Friends | Nature | Jerusalem | Golan | Family

Friends

Me (in case you haven't figured that out already)

Going away party

Eliran and Benji C

Hallel

Vered

Chaim

Judy

Meira

Fudgie

Taken on a bike trip to Kibbutz Tzora

Up the road into Tzora

Tzora Forest

Modes of transportation

Old City of Jerusalem

Old City walls

Entering Jaffa Gate

Inside Jaffa Gate

The Kotel (Western Wall) and Dome of the Rock

Outside the Old City

Center of Town

The annual Hutzot Ha'ir Fair on Ben Yehuda Street

Conducting a high school orchestra

Interesting cross-section: haredi (ultra-orthodox) man, secular soldier, Arab worker

Jaffa St., heading from Center to Central Bus Station

Central Bus Station, Jerusalem

Written on the window of the bus

Family trip to the Golan Heights, August '04

Miriam during a rest stop

Rafting on the Jordan River

Biking with Abba

Resting off the bikes

Best tasting water anywhere

The Kineret (Sea of Galilee)

My Family / Dena's Bat Mitzva

Dena

Miriam

Mory

Me

Grandma Rita & Grandpa Jerry

Grandma Leila & Pop-Pop

Aunt Shari

Cousin Ari

From left: Yael, her friend, Batya

Me dancing with Dena

Peru - World Schools Debating Championships - 2003

From August 4th to 17th 2003, I was in Lima, Peru, together with my teammates and coach, representing Israel in the World Schools Debating Championships 2003. Our team was comprised of myself, Talia Gillis, Hayah Goldlist, and Avital Sterngold, and our coach was Alona Toledano. This was not the first international debating competition for any of us, but we surprised even ourselves, coming in 6th place in the world.

Besides the debating, though, I (like everyone else) had an amazing time. I didn't like Lima itself, but the organizers did an amazing job with very limited resources, and the competition was excellent. I met some amazing people, drank lots of Pisco Sours (a great Peruvian drink), and had many unforgettable experiences.

During the course of the competition, I took many photos. These are some of my favorite ones. I hope you enjoy them.

Before:

Our team months before the competition (with Yair, who left shortly after)

The picture we submitted to the WSDC magazine, with Yair

Picnic:

The mountains outside of Lima, on the train ride

Our team at the picnic

Talia and Hayah relaxing after the picnic

Kuwait and Greece, at the picnic in the mountains, after the train ride

A mixed group of debaters after the picnic.

in Lima:

My favorite picture from the whole trip. These little brothers played better than any other musicians we saw in Lima.

Centuries-old piles of bones, on one of our fascinating trips through Lima

One of the many enormous chapels in Lima

In the same church - this must be symbolic of something...

A rare Peruvian middle-class family

The Lima skyline

Palace:

Marching guards ceremony at the presidential palace

Sitting in a palace chair

The Indonesians and me in the presidential palace

The English team and coach in the Presidential Palace.

A bustling street by the palace

Debates:

Our team mascot on duty

...and sleeping on the job

The Santa Maria School band (I think)

Dances

...and more dances...

...and some more...

Yes, these dances became very boring after a while...

Mishael (our adjudicator) during his speech in the backwards debate

Octos:

Sahil and Talia play a duet on the piano before the octo-finals

Hayah at the octo-finals

Hayah offering a point of information in the octo's

The girls with girls from one of the schools, after winning the octo's

Quarters:

Avital in the quarter-finals, at Universidad Renaldo Palma (URP)

Talia in the quarter-finals

Sam (England) in the quarter-finals

After losing the quarter-finals, happy to have gotten so far

Me on the terrace of URP

Areeg (Kuwait) and me on the URP terrace

The girls, back in the hotel, in their ugly URP shirts

Final dinner/hotel:

Sahil (Indonesia) and me

Astrid (Indonesia) and me in the hotel

Helen (Estonia), Sahil (Indonesia) and me at the final dinner

Laura (New Zealand) and me after the competition

Afterwards:

Unity - the flags of all the teams' countries

The sun sets on the WSDC 2003 - a view from the plane to the US.

USA 2003

Following the WSDC in August '03, I spent three and a half months in the U.S., working in Michigan for 3 months and vacationing in IL, FL and NY for three weeks. These are some of the photos I took during my time there.