Au Revoir Mes Amis (Goodbye My Friends)

Alriiiiiiiiiight everyone, here is it, my first video blog type thing, posted mere hours before I board a plane for Washington DC. It chronicles some fun times during my last two weeks in LA, and is meant to be a practice for Paris.

Before you view it, please note that I've realized that it's really just something that will make me happy when I look back on it. For the rest of you, I know you're going to think that it's too long, and it's a piece of crap. Here are some explanations so I can defend the crappiness of video #1:

1) the footage is all from my digicam, and I had no idea what I was doing while filming it. I don't claim to be a filmmaker, but I hope to improve as the year goes on.
2)I used Window's Movie Maker (ugh) to edit it yesterday, the day before I'm leaving (TODAY!!!), which was obviously a stupid idea because I was doing a ton of things at the same time to prepare to leave.
3) I have never used Window's Movie Maker before, and I'm not a fan...
4) I am not a patient person... and so I got tired of editing after many hours
5) I had way too much video to work with.

What I have learned: make video blogs more often so they aren't as long and don't frustrate me as much.

With all that said, here is video blog number one. Please enjoy, and please post some (reasonable) suggestions for how I can make them better in the future.



if you cannot see the video, find me on youtube. My username is sailormmmvj.

On another note, last night Maya put together a surprise going away party for me, at her house. My parents were even in on this-- they bought a cake! Just wanted to say thank you SO MUCH to Maya and whoever else helped plan this, and thank you to everyone who came and cheered me up. Just further proof that I have the best friends in the world.